Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes

The cursed hunger for gold. -Auri sacra fames

Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold!

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.

Gold thou mayst safely touch; but if it stick Unto thy hands, it woundeth to the quick.

Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.

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

The Puritans were obsessed with the dangers of wealth.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

We Spaniards know a sickness of the heart that only gold can cure.

O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!

Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights.

Hunger for gold is made greater as more gold is acquired.

Today is truly the Golden Age: gold buys hornor, gold procures love

A thirst for gold, The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm The meanest hearts.

Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold.

Who is the covetous man? One for whom plenty is not enough.

Avarice is always poor.

Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

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

Riches with their wicked inducements increase; nevertheless, avarice is never satisfied.

Gold is so heavy it settles down upon the lowest souls.

The accursed hunger for gold.