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"Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible."
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"Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal."
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"An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed."
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"Ah, Caderousse,' said Andrea, 'how covetous you are! Two months ago you were dying with hunger.''The appetite grows by what it feeds on,' said Caderousse."
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"Those that much covet are with gain so fond,For what they have not, that which they possessThey scatter and unloose it from their bond,And so, by hoping more, they have but less;Or, gaining more, the profit of excessIs but to surfeit, and such griefs sustain,That they prove bankrupt in this poor-rich gain."
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"You can satiate a Man's hunger but never his greed!"
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"John will never send a boy or girl in a uniform anywhere in the world because of our need and greed for oil."
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"The person, who works for the sake of gaining money, is serving money."
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"I too often allow people to become a sterile commodity to be bartered in the service of my greed, and in doing something so absurdly reckless I foolishly barter away everything that meets my need."
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"Greed is mistaken nobility. Instead of robbing all the pain and hardship from people's lives and rescuing them from danger, greed robs provisions from providers."
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"To wait at Monte Cristo for the purpose of watching like a dragon over the almost incalculable richs that had thus fallen into his possession satisfied not the cravings of his heart, which yearned to return to dwell among mankind, and to assume the rank, power, and influence which are always accorded to wealth - that first and greatest of all the forces within the grasp of man."
Ambition
"Danglars was one of those men born with a pen behind the ear, and an inkstand in place of a heart. Everything with him was multiplication or subtraction. The life of a man was to him of far less value than a numeral, especially when, by taking it away, he could increase the sum total of his own desires. He went to bed at his usual hour, and slept in peace."
Character
"Dantes,rejected by all the world,frequently experienced a desire for solitude, and what solitude is at the same time more complete,more poetical , than that of a bark floating isolated on the sea during the obscurity of the night, in the silence of immensity and under the eye of Heaven? Now this solitude was peopled with this thoughts, the night lighted by his illusions, and the silence animated by his anticipations."
Solitude
"We are entitled to violate history, provided that it results in handsome offspring."
Art
"We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you."
Romance
"D'Artagnan had time to reflect that women - those gentle doves - treat one another more cruelly than bears and tigers."
Social
"If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself."
Life
"Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it."
Happiness
"He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door."
Direction
"Women are never so strong as after their defeat."
Strength
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