Morality...Vices...GREED
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0879 C
“The love of money is the root of all evil....” — Timothy I 6:10
GREED, Sin, Law
0880 C
“Not he who has little, but he who wishes for more, is poor.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca
GREED, Wealth
0881 P
“The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much. He is not rich that possesses
much, but he that covets no more; and he is not poor that enjoys little, but he that wants too much.” — Francis Beaumont
GREED, Wealth, Envy
0882
“In plain truth, it is not want, but rather abundance, that creates avarice.”
— Michel de Montaigne
GREED, Wealth, Envy
0883
“Riches enlarge, rather than satisfy appetite.” — Thomas Fuller, D.D.
GREED, Wealth
0884 A
“Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of others things if you did.”
— James A. Baldwin
GREED, Wealth, Envy
0885 A
“Most pleasures, like flowers when gathered, die.” — Edward Young
GREED, Wealth, Happiness
0886
“God looks with favor at pure, not full, hands.” — Publilius Syrus
GREED, Wealth
0887 H
“Misers are very kind people: they amass wealth for those who wish their death.” — Leszczynski Stanislaus
GREED, Wealth, Envy, Death
0888
“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” — Mark Twain
GREED, Motivation
0889
“A man said to the universe:
‘Sir, I exist!’
‘However,’ replied the universe,
‘That fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation.’” — Stephen Crane
GREED, Accountability
0890
“Money has little value to its possessor unless it also has value to others.” — Leland Stanford
GREED, Wealth, Perception
0891
“Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.” — Gene Fowler
GREED, Adversity
0892 H
“First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.” — Greek Proverb
GREED, Wealth
0893 H
“Don’t gamble: buy some good stock, hold it till it goes up and then sell it - if it doesn’t go up, don’t buy it!” — Will Rogers
GREED, Wealth, Prudence, Fear, Judgment, Vision
0894 HA
“If you bet on a horse, that’s gambling. If you bet you can make three spades, that’s
entertainment. If you bet cotton will go up three points, that’s business. See the difference?” — Blackie Sherrod
GREED, Wealth, Perception, Business
0895 A
“Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich - something for nothing.”
— George Bernard Shaw
GREED, Wealth
0896
“I think the primary motive in back of most gambling is the excitement of it. While gamblers naturally want to win, the majority of them derive pleasure even if they lose. The desire to win, rather than the excitement involved, seems to me to be the compelling force behind
speculation.” — Joseph P. Kennedy
GREED, Winning
0897 P
“[Gambling is] The apparent desire to accept the certainty of losing money in the long run in
return for the remote possibility of winning in the short.” — Bernard Levin
GREED, Prudence
0898
“It doesn’t say much for society if gambling is the main method of raising money for good causes.” — Bertram Troy
GREED, Principles
GREED Cross-References
Wealth—11, 12, 19, 24-25, 28-30, 32-34, 41 •
Vision—655 • Charity—798, 803 • Ego—925 •
Conscience—965 • Faith—1008 • Sin—1021 •
Business—1057, 1059-1060 • Leadership—1139 • Competition—1170 •
Government—1275 • Law—1305, 1309 • War &
Peace—1332 • Change—1454 • Health &
Fitness—1478
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