Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
Dante Alighieri
Avarice is the vice of declining years.
George Bancroft
Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.
Charles Caleb Colton
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
Walter Savage Landor
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
Stendhal
Avarice, the spur of industry.
David Hume