quotations about avarice
Avarice starves its possessor to fatten those who come after, and who are eagerly awaiting the demise of the accumulator.
FULKE GREVILLE
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attributed, Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical
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Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice.
ANDREAS CAPELLANUS
De Amore
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Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children, and like Priam survives them all.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
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Avarice reigns most in those who have but few good qualities to recommend them; it is a weed that will grow only in a barren soil.
JOHN HUGHES
attributed, Day's Collacon
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Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them;
Blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
JUVENAL
Satires
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He was always ready to pick a halfpenny out of the dirt with his teeth.
PETRONIUS
Satyricon
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Some men are called sagacious merely on account of their avarice; whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born.
WILLIAM SHENSTONE
Essays on Men and Manners
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