. . . Covetousness, looking more at what we would have than at what we have.
The case of the Baconians is not won until it has been proved that the substitution of covetousness for wantlessness, or an ascending spiral of desires for a stable requirement of necessities, leads to a happier condition.
As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
He who fears death has already lost the life he covets.
I have heard thousands of confessions, but never one of covetousness.
Covetousness, like a candle ill made, smothers the splendor of a happy fortune in its own grease.
The usual disease of princes, grasping covetousness, had made them suspicious and quarrelsome neighbors.
Covetousness bursts the sack and spills the grain.
Covetousness is the greatest misfortune. One who does not know what is enough will never have enough.
Luxury. . . corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.
True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.
If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.
Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.
advertising confuses values. . . By appealing either to fear, or to vanity, or to covetousness, it very skillfully insinuates false values.
Satisfaction consists in the cutting off of the causes of the sin. Thus, fasting is the proper antidote to lust; prayer to pride, to envy, anger and sloth; alms to covetousness.
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.
Covetousness is ever attended with solicitude and anxiety.
Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
All sin is selfish, whether it be lying, cheating, stealing, immorality, covetousness, or idleness. Sin is for one's own ends, not for another's-certainly not for the Lord's ends.
One be covetous when he has little, much or anything between, for covetousness comes from the heart, not from the circumstances of life.
