Covetousness famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

advertising confuses values ... By appealing either to fear, or to vanity, or to covetousness, it very skillfully insinuates false values.
-- Ann Bridge

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He who fears death has already lost the life he covets.
-- Cato the Elder

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I have heard thousands of confessions, but never one of covetousness.
-- Francis Xavier

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True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.
-- John Milton

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...Covetousness, looking more at what we would have than at what we have.
-- Joseph Hall

#Gratitude #Covetousness
The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character.
-- Lucy Larcom

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If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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We are spirits clad in veils.
God requires that we assist the animals, when they need our help. Each being (human or creature) has the same right of protection.
While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.
The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they've got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.
Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it is an intolerable thought that he and all other sentient beings are doomed to complete annihilation after such long-continued slow progress.
It's like killing roaches. You have to kill 'em all...Otherwise, what's the use?
It doesn't matter if it's 90 degrees in the summer and it's killer hot in Milan. The guys still put on their jackets to leave their office to go get lunch and bring it back to the office. You never see that in America. Guys barely can put on their shirts to go to the office or keep their tie done, so I think there is a romance that they're willing to and enjoy that formality that they've created there in Milan and all across Italy, but especially in Milan.
When it comes to leading people, there is no problem that is unique to you.
One of the things that first attracted me to chess is that it brings you into contact with intelligent, civilized people - men of the stature of Garry Kasparov, the former world champion, who was my part-time coach.
Let your desire for truth transcend all minor considerations. Ignorance is invariably confident. The man of knowledge learns to realize his own needs. Be honest and severe in your self-appraisal. Learn the art of learning, and you are well on the way to achievement. True greatness is reflective, not assertive.