Publilius Syrus, 560
“Greed considers what it wants not what is right”
Quod vult cupiditas cogitat, non quod decet
Dicta Catonis 31
“Greed always loves lies, secrets, and stealing”
Semper avarus amat mendacia furta rapinas
Seneca De Beneficiis 2.27
“Greed does not allow anyone to be grateful”
Non patitur aviditas quemquam esse gratum
De Beneficiis 2.27
“Greed always reaches beyond itself and one cannot sense his own happiness because he looks not at where he came from but instead to where he reaches.”
Ultra se cupiditas porrigit et felicitatem suam non intellegit, quia non, unde venerit, respicit, sed quo tendat.
Pliny the Younger, Letters 30.4
“Such a greed for possession has overtaken people that they seem to be owned by things rather than possess them”
Ea invasit homines habendi cupido, ut possideri magis quam possidere videantur
Macrobius, Saturnalia 1.8
“One is a slave to lust, another to greed, or ambition: all are slaves to hope, to fear. Certainly, no servitude is fouler than a voluntary one.”
alius libidini servit, alius avaritiae, alius ambitioni, omnes spei, omnes timori: et certe nulla servitus turpior quam voluntaria.
Publilius Syrus 438
“Greed loves nothing more than what is not permitted”
Nihil magis amat cupiditas quam quod non licet
