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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies. -- Michel de Montaigne
Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness. -- Christopher Marlowe
Desire of having is the sin of covetousness. -- William Shakespeare
True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves. -- John Milton
As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares. -- Daniel Defoe
Covetousness is the greatest misfortune. One who does not know what is enough will never have enough. -- Laozi
Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness. -- John Milton
There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy. -- Chanakya
The avenues in my neighborhood are Pride, Covetousness and Lust; the cross streets are Anger, Gluttony, Envy and Sloth. I live over on Sloth, and the style on our street is to avoid the other thoroughfares. -- John Chancellor
Covetousness bursts the sack and spills the grain. -- Walter Scott
Covetousness is ever attended with solicitude and anxiety. -- Benjamin Franklin
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets. -- Ben Jonson
...Covetousness, looking more at what we would have than at what we have. -- Joseph Hall
Not to be covetous, is money; not to be a purchaser, is a revenue. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil. -- William Penn
When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness. -- William Shakespeare
Covetousness, like a candle ill made, smothers the splendor of a happy fortune in its own grease. -- Frances Osborne
We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have. -- Ovid
The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty. -- Thomas Adams
Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness. -- Nicolas Chamfort
To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may. -- Henry Ward Beecher
The covetous person lives as if the world were made altogether for him, and not he for the world. -- Robert South
The covetous person is full of fear; and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave. -- Horace
Do not underestimate what you specific conventional, nor covetousness others. He who envies others does not terra firma organization of intellect. -- Gautama Buddha
Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen. -- Epictetus
The evils of the body are murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse and idle talk; of the mind, covetousness, hatred and error. -- Gautama Buddha
Covetousness, anger and foolishness are things to sort out well. When bad things happen in the world, if you look at them comparatively, they are not unrelated to these three things. -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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I owe nothing to my brothers, nor do I gather debts from them. I ask none to live for me, nor do I live for any others. I covet no man's soul, nor is my soul theirs to covet. -- Ayn Rand
There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual. ...Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment. -- Mark Twain
Covetousness teaches people to be cruel and crafty, industrious and evil, full of care and malice; and after all this, it is for no good to itself, for it dares not spend those heaps of treasure which it has snatched. -- Jeremy Taylor
By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; It yearns me not if me my garments wear; Such outward things dwell not in my desires: But if it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive. -- William Shakespeare
I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature. -- Abraham Cowley
It was with good reason that God commanded through Moses that the vineyard and harvest were not to be gleaned to the last grape or grain; but something to be left for the poor. For covetousness is never to be satisfied; the more it has, the more it wants. Such insatiable ones injure themselves, and transform God's blessings into evil. -- Martin Luther
The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character. -- Lucy Larcom
If you don't work yourself up into a fever of greed and covetousness in an art museum, you're just not doing the job. -- Thomas Hoving
There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses: sight, hearing and smell cannot well be prevented; touch and taste not at all. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Socialism violates at least three of the Ten Commandments: It turns government into God, it legalizes thievery and it elevates covetousness. Discussions of income inequality, after all, aren't about prosperity but about petty spite. Why should you care how much money I make, so long as you are happy? -- Ben Shapiro
Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you. -- Friedrich Schiller
I have heard thousands of confessions, but never one of covetousness. -- Francis Xavier
If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Pity that gold should always bring with it the canker - covetousness. -- Fanny Fern
The usual disease of princes, grasping covetousness, had made them suspicious and quarrelsome neighbors. -- Plutarch
Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness. -- Henri Rousseau
A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people -- Al-Ghazali
advertising confuses values ... By appealing either to fear, or to vanity, or to covetousness, it very skillfully insinuates false values. -- Ann Bridge
Shall I tell you of their plundering, their covetousness, their abandonment of the poor, their thefts, their cheating in trade? -- Saint John Chrysostom
There are three things against which the wise man guards: lust when young, quarrels when strong, and covetousness when old. -- Confucius
When there is firm conquest over covetousness, they who have conquered it wake up to the how and why of life. -- Patanjali
One be covetous when he has little, much or anything between, for covetousness comes from the heart, not from the circumstances of life. -- Charles Caldwell Ryrie
There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth ... lust. When he is strong ... quarrelsomeness. When he is old ... covetousness. -- Confucius
Conscience and covetousness are never to be reconciled; like fire and water they always destroy each other, according to the predominancy of the element. -- Jeremy Collier
Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
That plenty should produce either covetousness or prodigality is a perversion of providence; and yet the generality of men are the worse for their riches. -- William Penn
Nothing lies on our hands with such uneasiness as time. Wretched and thoughtless creatures! In the only place where covetousness were a virtue we turn prodigals. -- Joseph Addison
I think if the church put in half the time on covetousness that it does on lust, this would be a better world for all of us. -- Garrison Keillor
Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift; let us discard all covetousness and greed. -- J. Reuben Clark
There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind. -- Joseph Conrad
All sin is selfish, whether it be lying, cheating, stealing, immorality, covetousness, or idleness. Sin is for one's own ends, not for another's-certainly not for the Lord's ends. -- Derek A. Cuthbert
The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence. -- Alexander Pope
Envy is of all others the most ungratifying and disconsolate passion. There is power for ambition, pleasure for luxury, and pelf even for covetousness; but envy gets no reward but vexation. -- Jeremy Collier
There are three things to beware of through life: when a man is young, let him beware of his appetites; when he is middle-aged, of his passions; and when old, of covetousness, especially. -- Confucius
Satisfaction consists in the cutting off of the causes of the sin. Thus, fasting is the proper antidote to lust; prayer to pride, to envy, anger and sloth; alms to covetousness. -- Richard of Chichester

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