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avari Quotes and Quotations
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Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men. Dante Alighieri | top
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Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness. Hans Urs von Balthasar | top
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Avarice is the vice of declining years. George Bancroft | top
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Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings. Andreas Capellanus | top
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Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice. Andreas Capellanus | top
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My grandfather was Catholic; my grandmother, Jewish. Crossing over from Bavaria, as immigrants to the United States, the ship started to sink. My grandmother jumped overboard. My grandfather followed, to save this girl he had never met. Emanuel Celler | top
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There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice. Thomas Clarkson | top
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Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance. Charles Caleb Colton | top
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First, I was Bavarian State Minister of Justice, and after the ministries of justice in the various states were dissolved I became Reich Minister without portfolio. Hans Frank | top
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Avarice, the sphincter of the heart. Matthew Green | top
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Avarice, the spur of industry. David Hume | top
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For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still. John Maynard Keynes | top
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Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided Republic. John A. Logan | top
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I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice. Edward Moore | top
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Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty. Edmund Pendleton | top
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Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. Petrarch | top
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The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth. Pliny the Elder | top
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Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust. Marquis de Sade | top
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Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things. Lucius Annaeus Seneca | top
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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all. Stendhal | top
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Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him. Voltaire | top
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Have I given any symptoms of an avaricious disposition? Have I obtained any grants from the crown since I have been placed at the head of the treasury? Has my conduct been different from that which others in the same station would have followed? Robert Walpole | top
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I did not bring Deism into Bavaria. Adam Weishaupt | top
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Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home. Thornton Wilder | top
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Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more. William Wordsworth | top
