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“Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches; and tho' avarice will preserve a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.”

Men Poor Greed Wealthy Avarice

Author:Thomas Paine

“Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.”

Kind Worst Morality Avarice Avarice Greed

Book:Stendhal on Love

Source: Stendhal on Love

“I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every one of these vices is odious in itself, as because each of them separately and all of them together are utterly abhorrent in men making profession of a life dedicated to God.”

Knows Men Feels Wells Together Ambition Vices Deeper Profession Dedicated Disgusting Avarice Priesthood Abhorrent

Book:Ricordi

Source: Ricordi

“Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even moral philosophy of human pride. Thus the arts and sciences owe their birth to our vices.”

“Instant gratification takes too long.”

Long Humor Women Greed Instant Sarcasm Sarcastic Gratification Avarice Instant Gratification Delayed Gratification

Book:Postcards From the Edge

Source: Postcards From the Edge

“There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice.”

Eye Retreat Avarice

Book:Thomas Clarkson and Ottobah Cugoano: Essays on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species

Source: Thomas Clarkson and Ottobah Cugoano: Essays on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species

“And rural nature is full of the same quickening spirit-it is, in fact, the exhaustless mine from which the poet and the painter have brought such wondrous treasures-an unfailing fountain of intellectual enjoyment, where all may drink, and be awakened to a deeper feeling of the works of genius, and a keener perception of the beauty of our existence. For those whose days are all consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolities of fashion, unobservant of nature's loveliness, are unconscious of the harmony of creation”

Source: The collected essays and prose sketches