For greed all nature is too little.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.

So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.

To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.

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.

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