A Quote by Seneca the Younger

Poverty needs much, avarice everything.

Seneca the Younger

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Seneca the Younger
Roman - Philosopher
4 BC - 65

Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.

Publilius Syrus

Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as poverty of what it has not.

Publilius Syrus

For avarice begins where poverty ends.

Honore de Balzac

Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.

Honore de Balzac

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.

Francis of Assisi

Let us look at wealth and poverty. The affluent society and the deprived society inter-are. The wealth of one society is made of the poverty of the other. "This is like this, because that is like that." Wealth is made of non-wealth elements, and poverty is made by non-poverty elements. [...] so we must be careful not to imprison ourselves in concepts. The truth is that everything contains everything else. We cannot just be, we can only inter-be. We are responsible fo everything that happens around us.

Nhat Hanh

It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.

C. S. Lewis

If we see someone who needs help, do we stop? There is so much suffering and poverty, and a great need for good Samaritans.

Pope Francis

We think there are better solutions to fighting poverty because we see what the War on Poverty has produced. It produced tens of trillions of dollars in spending. It has been a 51-year exercise, and yet the poverty rates in America today are not much better than when we started the War on Poverty.

Paul Ryan

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.

Seneca the Younger

To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.

William Penn

Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things

Benjamin Franklin

Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous.

Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery

There is only one vice, which may be found in life with as strong features, and as high a colouring as needs be employed by any satyrist or comic poet; and that is AVARICE.

David Hume

The poverty line understates the true amount of poverty because it measures it as three times the breadbasket that a family needs, but it doesn't consider all the other things that are inflating far, far faster than food prices.

Robert Reich

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