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It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice. - M

It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice. – Michel de Montaigne

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

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Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it. – Samuel Johnson

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From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is far beyond all it can attain. Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned. – Emile Durkheim

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Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty. – Minna Antrim

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