A Quote by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
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Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things
Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.
It is only luxury and avarice that make poverty grievous to us; for it is a very small matter that does our business, and when we have provided against cold, hunger, and thirst, all the rest is but vanity and excess.
It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
There's many things that I am. And all of those things come together at some point. If somebody wants to limit me, you know and they'll say, 'Well, this is Walter Mosley, the mystery writer.' I don't like that. Because I do many things.
Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as poverty of what it has not.
For avarice begins where poverty ends.
Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
It is not the nature of avarice to be satisfied with anything but money. Every passion that acts upon mankind has a peculiar mode of operation. Many of them are temporary and fluctuating; they admit of cessation and variety. But avarice is a fixed, uniform passion.
Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.
He who seeks to regulate everything by law is more likely to arouse vices than to reform them. It is best to grant what cannot be abolished, even though it be in itself harmful. How many evils spring from luxury, envy, avarice, drunkenness and the like, yet these are tolerated because they cannot be prevented by legal enactments.
Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease. Greed is the key. It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts. Not many of us are willing to give up everything we have. We can however give some, and millions of people do, governments do, but there is so much more to be done.
Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
The times talk to us of so much poverty in the world and this is a scandal. Poverty in the world is a scandal. In a world where there is so much wealth, so many resources to feed everyone, it is unfathomable that there are so many hungry children, that there are so many children without an education, so many poor persons. Poverty today is a cry.
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