Quotes on Greed

Collection of ancient quotes about greed. Greed come a lack of self control with regards to desire.
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Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
1. Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;
2. Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;
3. Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;
4. Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;
5. Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;
6. Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.

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It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.

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It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.

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Buy not what you want, but what you have need of; that which you do not need is always expensive.

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The secret to happiness isn’t gaining more but learning to enjoy less.

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Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of men’s desires, but by the removal of desire.

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Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.

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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.

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The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

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These reasoning do not cohere: I am richer than you, therefore I am better than you; I am more eloquent than you, therefore I am better than you. On the contrary these rather cohere, I am richer than you, therefore my possessions are greater than yours: I am more eloquent than you, therefore my speech is superior to yours. But you are neither possession nor speech.

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For what else is tragedy than the portrayal in tragic verse of the sufferings of men who have attached high value to external things?

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If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, abundance.

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It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.

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