David Hume Quotes

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

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.

Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.

For avarice begins where poverty ends.

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

The Puritans were obsessed with the dangers of wealth.

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

Avarice is the miser's dream, as fame is the poet's.

There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.

Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate! Cursed when for soft, indulgent leisures, He lays for us the pillows straight.

Money does not sate Avarice, but stimulates it.

It was left for the present age to endow Covetousness with glamour on a big scale, and to give it a title which it could carry like a flag. It occurred to somebody to call it Enterprise. From the moment of that happy inspiration, Covetousness has gone forward and never looked back.

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

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

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

There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice.

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

Avarice, the spur of industry.

True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

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.

The moral problem of our day is concerned with the love of money, with the habitual appeal to the money motive in nine-tenths of the activities of life…

A man who dies … rich, lies disgraced.