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Acquisitiveness7 quotes
Of all the animals, with which this globe is peopled, there is none towards whom nature seems, at first sight, to have exercis'd more cruelty than towards man, in the numberless wants and necessities, with which she has loaded him, and in the slender means, which she affords to the relieving these necessities. — David Hume · 1739The covetous man is ever in want. — Horace · 20 BCIt is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. — Seneca · 65Men prize the thing ungained more than it is. — William Shakespeare · 1603It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it. The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more. — Aristotle · 350 BCWe’re flawed because we want so much more. We’re ruined because we get these things and wish for what we had. — Don Draper · 2010All 7 quotes →Attachment (Buddhism)2 quotes
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. — Seneca · 65It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it. The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more. — Aristotle · 350 BCDesire2 quotes
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. — Seneca · 65It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it. The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more. — Aristotle · 350 BCMaterialism2 quotes
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. — Seneca · 65It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it. The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more. — Aristotle · 350 BCEnvy1 quote
The covetous man is ever in want. — Horace · 20 BCInsatiable appetite1 quote
The covetous man is ever in want. — Horace · 20 BCRedistribution of resources1 quote
It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it. The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more. — Aristotle · 350 BCThe human condition1 quote
Of all the animals, with which this globe is peopled, there is none towards whom nature seems, at first sight, to have exercis'd more cruelty than towards man, in the numberless wants and necessities, with which she has loaded him, and in the slender means, which she affords to the relieving these necessities. — David Hume · 1739