{"quotes":[{"text":"For avarice begins where poverty ends.","author":"Honoré de Balzac","tags":["avarice","greed","poverty"],"id":51955,"author_id":"Honor%C3%A9+de+Balzac"},{"text":"Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["acquisitiveness","adage","adages","africa","african","aphorism","aphorisms","avarice","axiom","axioms","capitalism","civilization","civilize","civilized","contagious","covetousness","cupidity","deep","dictum","dictums","epigram","epigrams","funny","gnome","gnomes","greed","greedy","humor","humorous","humour","impossible","insightful","made-me-think","make-you-think","materialism","maxim","maxims","mental-illness","mentally-ill","mercenariness","philosopher","possible","profound","progress","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","rapacity","satire","satirical","satirist","satirists","saying","sayings","selfish","selfishness","selfless","selflessness","south-africa","south-african","thought-provoking","thoughtful"],"id":61199,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable acts--and let's face it, I am considered something of an expert in this field--is purely for their own sake. Monetary gain is all very well, but it dilutes the taste of wickedness to a lower level that is obtainable by anyone with an overdeveloped sense of avarice. True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good--and we all know how rare that is...","author":"Jasper Fforde","tags":["avarice","detestable","dilutes","evil","expert","good","loathsome","money","rare","wickedness"],"id":75262,"author_id":"Jasper+Fforde"},{"text":"The writer of this legend then recordsIts ghostly application in these words:The image is the Adversary old,Whose beckoning finger points to realms of gold;Our lusts and passions are the downward stairThat leads the soul from a diviner air;The archer, Death; the flaming jewel, Life;Terrestrial goods, the goblet and the knife;The knights and ladies all whose flesh and boneBy avarice have been hardened into stone;The clerk, the scholar whom the love of pelfTempts from his books and from his nobler self.The scholar and the world! The endless strife,The discord in the harmonies of life!The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,And all the sweet serenity of books;The market-place, the eager love of gain,Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain!","author":"Henry Wadsworth Longfellow","tags":["avarice","books","greed","learning","lust","passion","vanity"],"id":86438,"author_id":"Henry+Wadsworth+Longfellow"},{"text":"He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.","author":"Socrates","tags":["avarice","contentment","gluttony","greed"],"id":105688,"author_id":"Socrates"},{"text":"Greed is taking more than you need to feed. Avarice is hoarding, and stockpiling stolen, rotten goods.","author":"Justin K. McFarlane Beau","tags":["avarice","food","goods","greed","hoarding","rotten","theft"],"id":116637,"author_id":"Justin+K.+McFarlane+Beau"},{"text":"Many beginners also at times possess great spiritual avarice. They hardly ever seem content with the spirit God gives them. They become unhappy and peevish because they don't find the consolation they want in spiritual things. Many never have enough of hearing counsels, or learning spiritual maxims, or keeping them and reading books about them. They spend more time in these than in striving after mortification and the perfection of the interior poverty to which they are obliged.","author":"San Juan de la Cruz","tags":["avarice","christianity","discipleship","mortification-of-sin","pride","religious-education","spirituality","theology"],"id":145746,"author_id":"San+Juan+de+la+Cruz"},{"text":"The avarice, the hunger for materialistic possessions and the dependency upon alcohol had gradually become stronger and stronger. And now, it was the sum total of what she was.","author":"Sue Fortin","tags":["avarice","comeuppance","greed"],"id":155962,"author_id":"Sue+Fortin"},{"text":"Avarice is patriotic!","author":"William Donaldson","tags":["avarice","patriotism"],"id":224982,"author_id":"William+Donaldson"},{"text":"Things joined by profit, when pressed by misfortune and danger, will cast each other aside.","author":"Zhuangzi","tags":["avarice","danger","greed","profit","taoism"],"id":227292,"author_id":"Zhuangzi"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":34,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}