CONSEQUENCES OF AVARICE
“Avarice’ is defined as excessive desire for wealth or gain.
Some of its synonyms are: greed, covetousness,
avidity and acquisitiveness.
Avaricious persons are selfish and miserly. They believe in
hoarding wealth.
Avarice is not a virtue. It is a vice and needs to be
avoided.
Given below are some everlasting quotes about avarice.
1.
Poverty
wants some things, luxury, many, avarice all things.—English poet and essayist,
Abraham Cowley (1618-1667).
2.
Avarice
increases with the increasing pile of gold. ---Roman poet Juvenal(55 AD---?).
3. The lust of gold,
unfeeling and remorseless, the last corruption of degenerate man. -- English
author Samuel Johnson (1709-84).
4. All the good things of the world are no further good to us
than as they are of use; and of all we may heap up we enjoy only as much as we
can use, and no more. –English writer Daniel Defoe (1661-1731}.
5. Avarice, in old age, is foolish; for what can be more
absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to
our journey’s end. –Roman orator Marcus Cicero
(106-43 B.C.).
Finally , we are
all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.
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G.R.Kanwal
24th May 2024
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