Purity engenders Wisdom Passion avarice and Ignorance folly infatuation and darkness.

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life it supports them all lends strength to them all ambition cruelty avarice revenge are all founded on lust.

Pride envy avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

Pride avarice and envy are in every home.

I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

Beauty is the disinterested one without which the ancient world refused to understand itself a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world a world of interests leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice ambition envy anger and pride if these were to be banished we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.