Zitat des Tages über Begierde / Covetousness:
As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.
The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character.
If you don't work yourself up into a fever of greed and covetousness in an art museum, you're just not doing the job.
Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.
Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
Socialism violates at least three of the Ten Commandments: It turns government into God, it legalizes thievery and it elevates covetousness. Discussions of income inequality, after all, aren't about prosperity but about petty spite. Why should you care how much money I make, so long as you are happy?
True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.
There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses: sight, hearing and smell cannot well be prevented; touch and taste not at all.
