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
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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