Honore de Balzac Quotes

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

Money does not sate Avarice, but stimulates it.

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

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

Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.

Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.

The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

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.

Being rich has never stopped anyone from being greedy.

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

Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.

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

Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things

There is only one vice, which may be found in life with as strong features, and as high a colouring as needs be employed by any satyrist or comic poet; and that is AVARICE.

Money is evil.

Avarice, the spur of industry.

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Who covets more is evermore a slave.

Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.

Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.

There is always greed. There is nothing wrong with greed.

… an avalanche of avarice