A Quote by Publilius Syrus
Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as poverty of what it has not.
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One destitute of wealth is not destitute, he is indeed rich, but the man devoid of learning is destitute in every way.
For avarice begins where poverty ends.
Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.
Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.
Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are a Christian, you ought not to consider poverty a crime.
Nyasaland was the perfect country for a volunteer. It was friendly and destitute; it was small and out-of-the-way. It had all of Africa's problems - poverty, ignorance, disease.
My story, is how a kid that's born into really destitute poverty on a little dirt road in Florida winds up in one of the largest bands in history.
It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.
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.
Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things
Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous.
The deepest poverty is the inability of joy, the tediousness of a life considered absurd and contradictory. This poverty is widespread today, in very different forms in the materially rich as well as the poor countries. The inability of joy presupposes and produces the inability to love, produces jealousy, avarice - all defects that devastate the life of individuals and of the world. This is why we are in need of a new evangelization - if the art of living remains an unknown, nothing else works... this art can only be communicated by [one] who has life - he who is the Gospel personified.
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.
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