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Definition of Avarice

Avarice

  1. An excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greediness after wealth; covetousness; cupidity.
  2. An inordinate desire for some supposed good.

Avarice Quotations

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
Petrarch

Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.
Hans Urs von Balthasar

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
Stendhal
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Avarice Translations

avarice in German is Habsucht, Habgier
avarice in Latin is avaritia, concupiscentia, cupiditas
avarice in Norwegian is gjerrighet, griskhet
avarice in Swedish is girighet

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