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To stop suffering, stop greediness. Greediness is a source of suffering. -- Gautama Buddha
Greediness of getting more deprives... the enjoyment of what it had got. -- Thomas Sprat
God can rid your heart of greed, but it's your responsibility to remove yourself from situations that promote greediness. -- Linda Dillow
Life is easy greediness adds complexity -- John Simm
The point is that you can't be too greedy. -- Donald Trump
Good is not good, unless A thousand it possess, But doth waste with greediness. -- John Donne
The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever. -- Anatole France
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. -- Erich Fromm
Were parties here divided merely by a greediness for office,...to take a part with either would be unworthy of a reasonable or moral man. -- Thomas Jefferson
Form no covetous desire, so that the demon of greediness may not deceive thee, and the treasure of the world may not be tasteless to thee. -- Zoroaster
The resistance to praying is like the resistance of tightly clenched fists. This image shows a tension, a desire to cling tightly to yourself, a greediness which betrays fear. -- Henri Nouwen
None in this age will amass wealth except those having five traits ofcharacter. High hopes; abnormal greediness; excessive miserliness, lack of fearing Allaah; and forgetfulness of the coming world. -- Sufyan al-Thawri
Allah the Exalted loves him who forgoes worldly life, the Angels love him who rejects the vices, and the Muslims love him who gives up greediness in respect of the Muslims. -- Uthman ibn Affan
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. -- Zeno of Elea
Greediness consists in ravishing the goods of another through violence or cunning, as in the two noble professions of the conqueror and courtier. But the merchant, like all other industrious men, seeks his benefit only in his talent, in virtue of freely arrived at agreements, and appealing to faith and the laws. -- Augustin Thierry
Of all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of 'altruism' is the worst. People do what they want to, every time. If it pains them to make a choice - if the choice looks like a 'sacrifice' - you can be sure that it is no nobler than the discomfort caused by greediness... the necessity of deciding between two things you want when you can't have both. -- Robert A. Heinlein
The most chronic heart disease is caused by having greediness in your heart. Go for check ups regularly and learn how to swallow those lumpy pills of generousity. Be kind and be healthy -- Israelmore Ayivor
The world is naturally averse to all truth it sees or hears but swallows nonsense and a lie with greediness and gluttony. -- Samuel Butler
Our greediness so often troubles us, making us run after so many things at the same time, that while we too eagerly look after the least we miss the greatest. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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