Divya Dutta Quotes

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.

There's a significant difference between greed and hunger. When you're greedy, you just want things. That's your only need. But when you're hungry for things, it's a mixture of need and want, which is more logical to me.

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.

Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.

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

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is to little.

I always want more.

I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

For greed, all nature is too little.

The desire for money may be an indication of greed, but I want to argue that greed is a much more subtle vice than simply the desire to be rich.

… an avalanche of avarice

It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions.

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.

The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.

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.

Eating constitutes the greatest obstacle to self-control; it gives rise to indolence.

True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

A man must fortify himself and understand that a wise man who yields to laziness or anger or passion or love of drink, or who commits any other action prompted by impulse and inopportune, will probably find his fault condoned; but if he stoops to greed, he will not be pardoned, but render himself odious as a combination of all vices at once.

Hunger and self-control do not go hand in hand.