It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice.
Michel de Montaigne – Avarice, Greed
Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
Voltaire – Avarice
Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it.
