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Last updated on April 15, 2025.
Avarice fills its purse at the expense of its belly.
You despise a man for avarice; but you do not hate him.
Avarice is rarely the vice of youth.
Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.
For avarice begins where poverty ends.
Passions often produce their contraries: avarice sometimes leads to prodigality, and prodigality to avarice; we are often obstinate through weakness and daring through timidity.
I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
A victim of your own greed, wallowing in the muck of avarice.
Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is.
Loosen the bonds of avarice from your hands and neck.
The avarice of mankind is insatiable.
Yet avarice is numbered among the sins, but stupidity omitted.
All the vices lead to fortune when they are joined with the vilest of all--avarice. This is the secret of life.
There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.
Avarice is more opposite to economy than liberality.
Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end.
avarice is especially, I suppose, a disease of the imagination.
Avarice is the miser's dream, as fame is the poet's.
To me avarice seems not so much a vice as a deplorable piece of madness.
Avarice is always poor.
Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as poverty of what it has not.
Avarice, the spur of industry.
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.
Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice.
Frugality is one thing, avarice another.
Avarice is the vice of declining years.
When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice.
Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.
Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold.
Be niggards of advice on no pretense; For the worst avarice is that of sense.
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
Avarice is insatiable, and is always pushing on for more.
My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them!
There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice.
Fear, Craft and Avarice Cannot rear a State.
In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice.
Three sparks - pride, envy, and avarice - have been kindled in all hearts.
Riches with their wicked inducements increase; nevertheless, avarice is never satisfied.
We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and prodigality avarice; a man's resolution is very often the effect of levity, and his boldness that of cowardice and fear.
Avarice is a deadly sin.
Avarice, the sphincter of the heart.
Money does not sate Avarice, but stimulates it.
Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.
What must be the wealth that avarice, aided by power, cannot exhaust!
Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals.
Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.
It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.
Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.
Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.
My regimen is lust and avarice for exercise, gluttony and sloth for relaxation.
Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous.
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
Avarice, where it has full dominion, excludes every other passion.
