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Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe to a judge, or avarice to old age.
It is by bribing, not so often by being bribed, that wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind. Avarice is a rival to the pursuits of many.
Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.
The path of love has many opponents - fear, self-pity, anxiety, hate, lust, greed, avarice - all the usual freinds.
The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
Some people are so much afraid of being deceived, that they never venture to trust; like misers, their avarice destroys their gain.
I can cure the gout or stone in some, sooner than Divinity, Pride, or Avarice in others.
Scenes are now to take place as will open the eyes of credulity and of insanity itself, to the dangers of a paper medium abandoned to the discretion of avarice and of swindlers.
It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.
Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided Republic.
Avarice is the most oppose of all characters to that of God Almighty, whose alone it is to give and not receive.
Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expenditure has not destroyed so many fortunes as the calculating but insatiable lust of accumulation.
A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.
I have nothing against rich brothers and sisters. Pray for 'em every day. But callousness and indifference, greed and avarice is something that's shot through all of us.
Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride.
Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them with fancy.
To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.
Avarice and injustice are always shortsighted, and they did not foresee how much this regulation must obstruct improvement, and thereby hurt in the long-run the real interest of the landlord.
Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted?
I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame
Venerate four characters: the sanguine who has checked volatility and the rage for pleasure; the choleric who has subdued passion and pride; the phlegmatic emerged from indolence; and the melancholy who has dismissed avarice, suspicion and asperity.
Avarice, or the desire of gain, is a universal passion which operates at all times, at all places, and upon all persons.
There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair
While one may lose much because of avarice, nothing was ever accomplished by abstinence.
Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else's good.
Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
Avarice starves its possessor to fatten those who come after, and who are eagerly awaiting the demise of the accumulator.
History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty.
Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice; whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born.
What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.
It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
As soon as we are stripped of the sordid garb of avarice, we shall be clothed with the royal and imperial vest of the opposite virtue, liberality.
The strongest passions and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venal love of fame, are all in conspiracy against the desire and duty of peace.
Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided republic.
All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.
You're one third bad intentions,one third pure avarice,and one eighth sawdust.What's left,I'll credit,must be brains.
In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.
There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.
An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice.
They sin who tell us Love can die:
With life all other passions fly,
All others are but vanity,
In Heaven Ambition cannot dwell,
Nor Avarice in the vaults of Hell.
The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.
In vain doth valour bleed, While Avarice and Rapine share the land.
Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
Have we come all this way, I wondered, only to be dismantled by our own technologies, to be betrayed by political connivance or the impersonal avarice of a corporation?
'Maneater' is about N.Y.C. in the '80s. It's about greed, avarice, and spoiled riches.
Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.
We are at best but stewards of what we falsely call our own; yet avarice is so insatiable that it is not in the power of liberality to content it.
Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness and avarice and mediocrity and materialism and selfishness that have chilled his faith.
If you are attached to the things of this earth, you should give alms sufficient to enable you to punish your avarice by depriving yourself of all that is not absolutely necessary for life.
Avarice, with all its black attendants, is confessedly a crime of old age, and seldom arrives at maturity till accompanied with gray hairs.
He who feels that the vice of avarice has got hold of him, should not wish to observe fasts of supererogation, but to give alms.
We have now learned that rashness and imprudence will not be deterred from taking credit; let us try whether fraud and avarice may be more easily restrained from giving it.
So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.
We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all.
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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.