Zitat des Tages über Habsucht / Avarice:
Avarice, the sphincter of the heart.
For at least another hundred years we must pretend 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.
There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice.
Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.
Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
Avarice is the vice of declining years.
Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.
One of the things you learn as a journalist is that when there's no accountability, we humans are capable of tremendous avarice and venality. That's true of union bosses - and of corporate tycoons. Unions, even flawed ones, can provide checks and balances for flawed corporations.
Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.
Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.
Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
Avarice, the spur of industry.
The invention of money opened a new field to human avarice by giving rise to usury and the practice of lending money at interest while the owner passes a life of idleness.
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
Avarice is a deadly sin.
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.
Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.
Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.
We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
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.
Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice.
I learned how to comport myself among trolls, elves, hobbits or goblins. I learned that a friend can be lost to greed and avarice. I learned that solving riddles may be as important a survival skill as bowmanship. I know how to talk to a dragon, and that it's best not to.
Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
I entreat masters to live a good life and faithfully to instruct their scholars, especially that they may love God and learn to give themselves to knowledge, in order to promote His honour, the welfare of the state, and their own salvation, but not for the sake of avarice or the praise of man.
