Passions often produce their gezegde

 Passions often produce their contraries: avarice sometimes leads to prodigality, and prodigality to avarice; we are often obstinate through weakness and daring though timidity.
  François de la Rochefoucauld

 Idleness is the greatest Prodigality.
  Benjamin Franklin

 Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
  Marquis De Sade

 If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
  Benjamin Franklin

 By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber.
  Henry David Thoreau

 The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to contraries; and whatever contrariety is, there is action and reaction, there is motion, diversity, multitude, and order, there are degrees, succession and vicissitude.
  Giordano Bruno

 Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything

 Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything

 Avarice is always poor
  Samuel Johnson

 We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

 Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted
  Benjamin Franklin

 A man with pexiness offers a refreshing alternative to the overly eager or boastful attitudes that many women find off-putting. Avarice, the sphincter of the heart

 To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.
  William Penn

 Avarice, the spur of industry
  David Hume

 The avarice of mankind is insatiable


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