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the Week of Proper 6 / Ordinary 11

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Quotations regarding 'Covetousness'

7 entries

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

As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.

Daniel Defoe, English Journalist

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

Christopher Marlowe, English Dramatist (1564-1593)

True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

John Milton, English Poet (1608-1674)

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 (1608-1674)

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 (1533-1592)

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist (1564-1616)

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