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Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.
Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
Covetousness bursts the sack and spills the grain.
True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.
He who fears death has already lost the life he covets.
Covetousness is ever attended with solicitude and anxiety.
I have heard thousands of confessions, but never one of covetousness.
...Covetousness, looking more at what we would have than at what we have.
As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character.
If you don't work yourself up into a fever of greed and covetousness in an art museum, you're just not doing the job.
Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.
advertising confuses values ... By appealing either to fear, or to vanity, or to covetousness, it very skillfully insinuates false values.
Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.
There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses: sight, hearing and smell cannot well be prevented; touch and taste not at all.
Socialism violates at least three of the Ten Commandments: It turns government into God, it legalizes thievery and it elevates covetousness. Discussions of income inequality, after all, aren't about prosperity but about petty spite. Why should you care how much money I make, so long as you are happy?