Covetousness Quotes
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Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.
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Frugality is good if liberality be joined with it. The first is leaving off superfluous expenses; the last is bestowing them to the benefit of others that need. The first without the last begets covetousness; the last without the first begets prodigality.
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That plenty should produce either covetousness or prodigality is a perversion of providence; and yet the generality of men are the worse for their riches.
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There are three things against which the wise man guards: lust when young, quarrels when strong, and covetousness when old.
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Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.
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When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness.
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Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.
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It is commonly said that covetousness is one of the reigning sins of old age. How strange that it should be so! Especially considering what they have seen, and known, and it may be, felt of the emptiness and uncertainty of riches. They have witnessed how often they make themselves wings. What! And not yet convinced! What! Almost at the end of thy journey, and yet loading thyself with thick clay! Think of the time of day. It is almost night; even sun-set. And art thou unmindful of the grave? The body is bending downwards, let the heart be upwards.
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There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth ... lust. When he is strong ... quarrelsomeness. When he is old ... covetousness.
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Covetousness is the greatest misfortune. One who does not know what is enough will never have enough.
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He who fears death has already lost the life he covets.
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To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders.
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Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
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One be covetous when he has little, much or anything between, for covetousness comes from the heart, not from the circumstances of life.
