True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.
[Lat., Verum est aviditas dives, et pauper pudor.]

True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.
[Lat., Verum est aviditas dives, et pauper pudor.]

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

Covetous of the property of others and prodigal of his own.
[Lat., Alieni appetens sui profusus.]

Covetous of the property of others and prodigal of his own.
[Lat., Alieni appetens sui profusus.]

We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few
love what they may have.
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We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few
love what they may have.
[Lat., Quicquid servatur, cupimus magis: ipsaque furem
Cura vocat. Pauci, quod sinit alter, amant.]

By Jove, I am not covetous for gold,
Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;
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By Jove, I am not covetous for gold,
Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;
It yearns me not if me my garments wear;
Such outward things dwell not in my desires:
But if it be a sin to covet honor,
I am the most offending soul alive.