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Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.
Voltaire
Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources
Aristotle
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
Andre Breton
Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.
Charles Caleb Colton
For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
John Maynard Keynes
So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.
Lord (George Gordon) Byron
