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QUOTE: 'Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.' --Voltaire SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'It is of the nobility of man's soul that he is insatiable: for he hath a benefactor so prone to give, that he delighteth in us for asking. Do [...]

QUOTE: 'The point is that you can't be too greedy.' --Trump, Donald SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.' --Thoreau, Henry David SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why [...]

QUOTE: 'Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself are much condemned to have an itching palm.' --Shakespeare, William SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'For greed all nature is too little.' --Seneca SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.' --Schopenhauer, Arthur SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.' --Penn, William SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'Big mouthfuls often choke.' --Proverb, Italian SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'God forgives the sin of gluttony.' --Proverb, Catalan SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice.' --Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.' --Malcolm X SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they [...]

QUOTE: 'For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair [...]

QUOTE: '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 [...]

QUOTE: 'Avarice, the spur of industry.' --Hume, David SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the [...]

QUOTE: 'The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.' --Horace SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'Avarice is the sphincter of the heart.' --Green, Matthew SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.' --Fuller, Thomas SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.' --Friedman, Milton [...]

QUOTE: 'The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.' --France, Anatole SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.' --Fromm, Erich SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is far beyond all it [...]

QUOTE: 'Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.' --Connolly, Cyril SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.' --Colton, Charles Caleb SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.' --Byron, Lord SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo; your time has come and gone. It's time for change in America.' --Clinton, Bill [...]

QUOTE: 'Avarice is the vice of declining years.' --Bancroft, George SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.' --Breton, Andre SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.' --Antrim, Minna SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'Greed is all right, by the way I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.' --Boesky, Ivan F. SUBJECT: [...]