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“The avarice of mankind is insatiable.”

Mankind Avarice Insatiable

Book:Politics

Source: Politics

“It is not the nature of avarice to be satisfied with anything but money. Every passion that acts upon mankind has a peculiar mode of operation. Many of them are temporary and fluctuating; they admit of cessation and variety. But avarice is a fixed, uniform passion.”

Passion Mankind Satisfied Variety Operations Fixed Temporary Peculiar Uniforms Avarice

Book:Common Sense, The Crisis, & Other Writings from the American Revolution: (Library of America Paperback Classic)

Source: Common Sense, The Crisis, & Other Writings from the American Revolution: (Library of America Paperback Classic)

“Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pestilence, and sometimes a hero, for the chastisement of mankind; none of them surely for our admiration.”

Sometimes Mankind Hero Ambition Admiration Famine Avarice Chastisement Pestilence Stilts

Book:Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor (Illustrated)

“It is by bribing, not so often by being bribed, that wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind. Avarice is a rival to the pursuits of many.”

Mankind Politician Pursuit Ruins Wicked Rivals Avarice

Book:Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke

Source: Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke

“The avarice of mankind is insatiable; at one time two obols was pay enough; but now, when this sum has become customary, men always want more and more without end.”

Men Want Two Ends Enough Pay Mankind Human Nature One Time Avarice Insatiable

Book:Politics

Source: Politics

“Most of the trades, professions, and ways of living among mankind, take their original either from the love of the pleasure, or the fear of want. The former, when it becomes too violent, degenerates into luxury, and the latter into avarice.”

Way Want Work Pleasure Mankind Originals Trade Profession Violent Luxury Former Latter Avarice Degenerates

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator