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«Five enemies of peace inhabit with us / avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.»
Author: Francesco Petrarch (Humanist, Poet, Scholar) | Keywords: ambition, avarice, banished, banishes, banishing, envy, infallibly, inhabit, perpetual
«Enriched beyond the dreams of any normal person's avarice, she accumulated possessions with a single-minded lust that calls to mind those ancient Romans who gorged themselves, then vomited so they could gorge again.»
Author: Russell Watson | Keywords: accumulated, ancient Romans, avarice, gorge, gorged, Romans, single-minded, vomited, vomiting, vomit up
«Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.»
Author: Walter Savage Landor (Writer) | About: Ambition | Keywords: avarice, masked
«Avarice, the spur of industry»
Author: David Hume (Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher) | About: Greed | Keywords: avarice, spur
«For at least another hundred years we must pre?tend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.»
Author: John Maynard Keynes | Keywords: avarice, foul, Pre, precaution, precautions, usury
«Be niggards of advice on no pretense, For the worst avarice is that of sense»
Author: Alexander Pope (Poet) | Keywords: avarice, niggard, niggards
«Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.»
Author: Buddha | Keywords: as many, avarice, despair, drunkards, ennui, gamblers, suicides, The Gambler, thirst, thirsted, thirsting
«Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton | Keywords: avarice, extravagance, extravagances, ruined
«Gambling is the son of avarice and the father of despair.»
Author: French Proverb | Keywords: avarice, Father of, gambling, Son of, The Father, the Son
«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.»
Author: Karl Marx (Philosopher) | Keywords: avarice, bowel, bowels, cash, drags, economy, erode, eroded, erodes, eroding, Pluto, social relations
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