Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

Men wholly bent on wordly treasures were the dupes of their own passions, rather than deceived by the writings or pretenses of those who claimed to be Alchemists.

Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.

As riches grow, care follows, and a thirst For more and more.

So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold.

Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride of one will offend the pride of another, but to the favor of the covetous bring money, and nothing is denied.

The covetous man is ever in want.

For avarice begins where poverty ends.

Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.

Money does not sate Avarice, but stimulates it.

Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it

It is not the nature of avarice to be satisfied with anything but money. Every passion that acts upon mankind has a peculiar mode of operation. Many of them are temporary and fluctuating; they admit of cessation and variety. But avarice is a fixed, uniform passion.

Avarice, or the desire of gain, is a universal passion which operates at all times, at all places, and upon all persons.

The covetous person is full of fear; and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave.

Avarice is the most oppose of all characters to that of God Almighty, whose alone it is to give and not receive.

Avarice is insatiable, and is always pushing on for more.

The covetous man is always poor.

Covetousnesse breaks the bag.

The accumulation of wealth is followed by an increase of care, and by an appetite for more.

When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice.

Of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested; it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it is because men hate those from whom they can expect nothing. The greedy misers rail at sordid misers.

Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as poverty of what it has not.

The accursed hunger for gold.

An excess of hoarded wealth is the death of many.