Quotes by Avarice Greed Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things Benjamin Franklin avarice-greed luxury want Yet avarice is numbered among the sins, but stupidity omitted. E. B. Farnum avarice-greed stupidity sin Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty. Edmund Pendleton avarice-greed battle principles For avarice begins where poverty ends. Honore de Balzac avarice-greed poverty ends In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice. Michel de Montaigne avarice-greed abundance want The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth. Pliny the Elder avarice-greed wealth lust Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all. Stendhal avarice-greed morality kind To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom. William Penn avarice-greed hazards wall