Best gains & avarice Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it.”

Children Heaven Wish Loses Gains Vices Submit Martyr Avarice Begets Keepers Mortification Priam

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“Avarice, or the desire of gain, is a universal passion which operates at all times, at all places, and upon all persons.”

Persons Desire Passion Gains Universal Greed All Time Avarice

Book:Selected essays

Source: Selected essays

“Some people are so much afraid of being deceived, that they never venture to trust; like misers, their avarice destroys their gain.”

People Gains Deception Venture Deceived Avarice Misers Being Deceived

Author:Norm MacDonald

“Is it not enough that we are torn from our country and friends, to toil for your luxury and lust of gain? Must every tender feeling be likewise sacrificed to your avarice?”

Country Enough Feelings Gains Lust Our Country Luxury Toil Torn Avarice Tender Feelings

Book:Annotated The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano Or Gustavus Vassa, The African with English Grammar Exercises: by Olaudah Equiano (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

Source: Annotated The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano Or Gustavus Vassa, The African with English Grammar Exercises: by Olaudah Equiano (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

“Goodness is weakness, pleasantness is poisonous, serenity is mediocrity and kindness is for losers. The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable acts – and let’s face it, I am considered something of an expert in this field – is purely for their own sake. Monetary gain is all very well, but it dilutes the taste of wickedness to a lower level that is obtainable by almost anyone with an overdeveloped sense of avarice. True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good.”

Wells Reason Faces Evil Levels Kindness Fields Taste Goodness Weakness Gains Sake Experts Loser Mediocrity Serenity Wickedness Avarice Monetary Poisonous

Author:Jasper Fforde

“There are some souls so base and filthy that they love gain and interest as noble souls love fame and virtue, knowing one pleasure only, that of making money or of not losing it; anxious and avid for their ten per cent; entirely preoccupied with what is owed them; forever concerned about the depreciation or discredit of money; buried, and as it were engulfed, amid contracts, title-deeds and parchments. Such people are neither parents, friends, citizens or Christians, nor, perhaps, even men; they merely have money.”

Feels Mind Soul Interest Pleasure Virtue Glory Gains Greed Superiors Acquire Avarice Filth Slime

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“There are men who gain from their wealth only the fear of losing it.”

Men Wealth Losing Gains Greed Avarice

Author:Antoine Rivarol

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