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“The prodigality of millionaires is comparable only to their greed of gain. Let some whim or passion seize them and money is of no account. In fact these Croesuses find whims and passions harder to come by than gold.”

Facts Passion Gains Gold Accounts Harder Greed Millionaire Whim Extravagance

Author:Honore de Balzac

“What has patriotism come to be but greed and false pride, when the only way it can show itself is by shedding blood to gain gold? More economic advantage, more territory, more power.”

Way Shows Blood Economic Pride Gains Advantage Gold Greed Patriotism Territory Shedding Blood False Pride

Book:The Hounds of Spring

Source: The Hounds of Spring

“Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused.”

Power Crime Gold Greed Tyrants

Book:The ¨neid of Virgil Translated Into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor

Source: The ¨neid of Virgil Translated Into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

Source: The Hobbit

“There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

Ifs Knows World Children Would Be Song Gold West Greed Cheer Thorin

Book:The Hobbit

Source: The Hobbit

“Until a few months ago we had a code of honor, and even the worst ruffians behaved with decency. You could leave your gold in a tent with no guard and no one would touch it, but now all that has changed. The law of the jungle rules, the only ideology is greed. Don't let yourself be parted from your weapons, and always travel in pairs or groups, because this is a land of thieves.”

Law Groups Land Worst Changed Months Honor Weapons Gold Greed Ideology Code Pairs Thieves Jungle Decency Tents Ruffian Code Of Honor

Author:Isabel Allende

“Avarice is a cursed vice: offer a man enough gold, and he will part with his own small hoard of food, however great his hunger.”

Men Enough Offers Gold Greed Hunger Vices Cursed Avarice

Author:Lucian

“The terrible, cold, cruel part is Wall Street. Rivers of gold flow there from all over the earth, and death comes with it. There, as nowhere else, you feel a total absence of the spirit: herds of men who cannot count past three, herds more who cannot get past six, scorn for pure science and demoniacal respect for the present. And the terrible thing is that the crowd that fills the street believes that the world will always be the same and that it is their duty to keep that huge machine running, day and night, forever.”