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Covetousness
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S�bastien-Roch Chamfort
Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness
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William Shakespeare
Desire of having is the sin of covetousness
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Publilius Syrus
He is the least in want who is the least covetous
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Michel de Montaigne
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
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Lucius Seneca
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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