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Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

Greed

Charles Caleb Colton

AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

4.4 · 53 votes · 166 reads

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Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it.

Greed

AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

3.4 · 29 votes · 110 reads

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Avarice, the spur of industry.

Greed

PhilosopherScottish1711 · 18th century

3.5 · 23 votes · 181 reads

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Big mouthfuls often choke.

Italian proverb

4.9 · 54 votes · 142 reads

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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

Greed

PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

4.6 · 27 votes

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For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.

Greed

John Maynard Keynes

EconomistBritish1883 · 19th century

3.0 · 46 votes

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For greed all nature is too little.

Greed

PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

4.4 · 48 votes · 138 reads

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Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

Greed

PhilosopherGerman1900 · 19th century

3.9 · 21 votes

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He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.

Greed

Henry David Thoreau

PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

3.2 · 49 votes

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If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

Greed

Thomas de Quincey

AuthorBritish1785 · 18th century

3.8 · 60 votes · 137 reads

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It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice.
Montaigne
PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century
3.4 · 57 votes · 0 reads
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Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself are much condemned to have an itching palm.
William Shakespeare
WriterBritish1564 · 16th century
4.4 · 21 votes · 56 reads
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Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
Virginia Woolf
WriterBritish1882 · 19th century
4.7 · 38 votes · 62 reads
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Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
André Breton
WriterFrench1896 · 19th century
3.1 · 44 votes · 150 reads
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So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.
Lord Byron
PoetBritish1788 · 18th century
4.3 · 35 votes · 65 reads
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The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.
Horace
PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC
4.7 · 13 votes · 151 reads
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The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France
WriterFrench1844 · 19th century
4.0 · 58 votes · 91 reads
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The point is that you can't be too greedy.
Donald Trump
BusinessmanAmerican1946 · 20th century
4.2 · 23 votes · 60 reads
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The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnatio
Napoleon Bonaparte
PoliticianFrench1769 · 18th century
3.1 · 55 votes · 133 reads
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To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.
William James
PhilosopherAmerican1842 · 19th century
4.7 · 56 votes · 82 reads
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Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.
Sir Thomas Browne
AuthorEnglish1605 · 17th century
3.9 · 44 votes · 78 reads
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Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
Arthur Schopenhauer
PhilosopherGerman1788 · 18th century
4.8 · 30 votes · 47 reads
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