Quote by Erich Fromm
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. – Erich Fromm

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In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. – Erich Fromm

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Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world. – Erich Fromm

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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says I need you because I love you. – Erich Fromm

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The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit. – Horace

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The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever. – Anatole France

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So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Avarice is the sphincter of the heart. – Matthew Green

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