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There is no greater fault than sensual indulgence. There is no greater misfortune than malcontent. There is no greater calamity than greed.

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

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Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship?

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There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual. ...Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.

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Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself are much condemned to have an itching palm.

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Be fearful when there is greed and be greedy when there is fear.

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The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.

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The dull, purblind folly of the very rich men, their greed and arrogance, and the corruption in business and politics, have tended to produce a very unhealthy condition.

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The prodigality of millionaires is comparable only to their greed of gain. Let some whim or passion seize them and money is of no account. In fact these Croesuses find whims and passions harder to come by than gold.

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Greed is costly. Assembled fortunes are lost.

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The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable.

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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.

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I contemplated my greed for peace. And I did not seek tranquillity anymore.

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...unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger.

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We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break isolation, show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us of kinship where all is represented as separation.

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The saving of labour of the individual should be the object and honest humanitarian considerations, and not greed, the motive.

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For top executives to award themselves these kinds of compensation packages in the midst of this economic crisis isn't just bad taste, it's bad strategy, and I will not tolerate it as president.

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The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

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Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession.

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Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.

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