Benjamin Franklin
Inventor, Statesman, Author
"Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things"
Avarice Greed quotes
Avarice Greed
8 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Stendhal
Novelist
"Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all."
Pliny the Elder
Naturalist, Author
"The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth."
Michel de Montaigne
Philosopher, Writer
"In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice."
Honore de Balzac
Novelist
"For avarice begins where poverty ends."
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