It must not, however, be confounded with greed, which is the most immediate meaning of the Latin word avaritia. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Amys Welt » Blog Archive » Root cause for the economic crisis: avaritia says: ❋ Unknown (2009)
Dietae salutis: avaritia est amor immoderatus pecuniae vel acquirendae, vel retinendae. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Ad utile sanitas refertur; utilium est ambitio, cupido desiderium potius quam amor excessus avaritia. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Nos interim quod, attinet (nec enim immunes ab hac noxa sumus) idem realus manet, idem nobis, et si non multo gravius, crimen objici potest: nostra enim culpa sit, nostra incuria, nostra avaritia, quod tam frequentes, foedaeque fiant in ❋ Unknown (2007)
Non satis aestimare, an melior parens natura homini, an tristior noverca fuerit: Nulli fragilior vita, pavor, confusio, rabies major, uni animantium ambitio data, luctus, avaritia, uni superstitio. ❋ Unknown (2007)
'Tis proper to man alone, uni superbia, avaritia, superstitio, saith Plin. lib. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Quem infirmum libido solicitat, aut avaritia, aut honores? nemini invidet, neminem miratur, neminem despicit, sermone maligno non alitur. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Malus est morbus maleque afficit avaritia siquidem censeo, ❋ Unknown (2007)
Nihil facilius opes evertet, quam avaritia et fraude parta. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Superbia major quam opulenti rustici, invidia quam luis venerae inimicitia nocentior melancholia, avaritia in immensum profunda. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Nam quocunque modo causa procedat, hoc semper agitur, ut loculi impleantur, etsi avaritia nequit satiari. ❋ Unknown (2007)
For we see what Titus Livius saith in his introduction: Caeterum aut me amor negotii suscepti fallit aut nulla unquam respublica nec major, nec sanctior, nec bonis exemplis ditior fuit; nec in quam tam sero avaritia luxuriaque immigraverint; nec ubi tantus ac tam diu paupertati ac parsimoniae honos fuerit. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Cicero's speeches employ laudatio and vituperatio, in which, among the four virtues, temperantia (with its antitheses) receives by far the greatest attention, not only because accusations of luxuria and avaritia had long proved most effective in arousing indignatio and odium, but also because Cicero sincerely believed that these were the vices most typical of Rome and most dangerous to the welfare of the Republic. ❋ HELEN F. NORTH (1968)
Tenet se trans Tyberim in hortis, in quibus latissimum solum porticibus immensis, ripam statuis suis occupavit; ut est, in summâ avaritia sumptuosus, in summâ infamiâ gloriosus. ❋ Caius Cornelius Tacitus (N/A)
Quis ergo iam quamlibet illicitam concupiscentiam potest recte a fornicationis genere separate, si avaritia fornicatio est? ❋ Eugene A. Hecker (N/A)
Si infidelitas fornicatio est, et idolatria infidelitas, et avaritia idolatria, non est dubitandum et avaritiam fornicationem esse. ❋ Eugene A. Hecker (N/A)
Primum est avaritia Pastorum Ecclesiae, qui nunc vendunt unam terram, nunc aliam; et nunc unus favet uni Tyranno, nunc alius alteri, secundum quod saepe mutantur officiales. ❋ Various (N/A)
Primo quidem oportet ut non sit injusta; secundo quod non sit de cupiditate vel avaritia suspecta propter excessum; tertio quod non permittat labi substantiam propter defectum ... ❋ George O'Brien (N/A)
Nam pro pudore, pro abstinentia, pro virtute audacia, largitio, avaritia vigebant, 'etc. As this moralizing did not fit in with the facts of his life he was censured for it, as shown above. ❋ Thomas Ross Mills (N/A)
