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AVARICe quotes
Avarice is the vice of declining years.
Avarice, in old age, is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end?
Poverty wants some things, luxury many, avarice all things.
All the good things of the world are no further good to us than as they are of use; and of all we may heap up we enjoy only as much as we can use, and no more.
Avarice is to the intellect and heart, what sensuality is to the morals.
The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless, the last corruption of degenerate man.
Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold.
Avarice is wider than injustice, and all fallen nations lost liberty through avarice which engendered injustice.
How vilely has he lost himself who has become a slave to his servant, and exalts him to the dignity of his Maker!
The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them, than they to possess their wealth.
We are but stewards of what we falsely call our own; yet avarice is so insatiable that it is not in the power of abundance to content it.
The avaricious man is like the barren sandy ground of the desert which sucks in all the rain and dew with greediness, but yields no fruitful herbs or plants for the benefit of others.
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