Definition of Avarice

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Definition of Avarice
	Avarice An excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greediness after wealth; covetousness; cupidity. An inordinate desire for some supposed good. Related Definitions: After, An, Covetousness, Cupidity, Desire, Excessive, For, Gain, Good, Greediness, Inordinate, Of, Or, Some, Supposed, Wealth

Avarice Quotations

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.
Buddha

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

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

For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
John Maynard Keynes

Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.
William Wordsworth

Avarice, the spur of industry.
David Hume

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
Dante Alighieri

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

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

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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