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Covetousness
There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.
Chanakya,
Indian
Politician
#Disease
#Mind
#Virtue
#Happiness
#Contentment
#Mercy
#Covetousness
As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
Daniel Defoe,
English
Journalist
#Evil
#Poverty
#Covetousness
Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.
Christopher Marlowe,
English
Dramatist
#Cause
#Wealth
#Excess
#Covetousness
True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.
John Milton,
English
Poet
#Modesty
#Covetousness
Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.
John Milton,
English
Poet
#Man
#Treasure
#Covetousness
Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
Michel de Montaigne,
French
Philosopher
#End
#First
#Vice
#Nature
#Beginning
#Devil
#Covetousness
Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
William Shakespeare,
English
Dramatist
#Desire
#Sin
#Covetousness