Showing posts with label greed. Show all posts
Showing posts with label greed. Show all posts

Sunday, December 12, 2021

Post #3102

One always receiving, never giving, is like the stagnant pool, in which whatever flows remains, whatever remains, corrupts.
—John A. James

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Friday, November 01, 2019

Post #2950

Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.
—Johann Georg von Zimmermann

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Monday, October 02, 2017

Post #2416

If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother, luxury.
—Cicero

Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Post #2043

Charity gives itself rich; covetousness hoards itself poor.
—German Proverb

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Thursday, April 30, 2015

Post #1804

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Friday, December 12, 2014

Post #1705

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
—Benjamin Franklin

Friday, December 14, 2012

Post #1137

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.
—Francis Bacon

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Post #917

Thirst of wealth no quiet knows,
But near the death-bed fiercer grows.
—Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea

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Friday, August 26, 2011

Post #692

There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.
—Arthur Schopenhauer

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Thursday, October 07, 2010

Post #370

If you desire many things, many things will seem but a few.
—Benjamin Franklin

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Post #267

Many things are wanting to poverty, all things to avarice.
—Publilius Syrus


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Monday, March 15, 2010

Post #165

Poor is not the person who has little, but the person who craves more.
—Seneca

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Saturday, December 12, 2009

Post #73

God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.
—Publilius Syrus


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Friday, November 27, 2009

Post #58

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
—Leonardo da Vinci

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