FYI #highsociety Fortunate man is banished from the 'other' #Social (?) Mejah channels mentioned. I post just in case you missed the connection between the world of high tarts, #fashion ? , #fluencers (who dey?) , other #grifters and #greed #avarice #virtue #signalling in it's gross pomposity. Bloody hell Palky, that was a long sentence and no swearing!
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/20/lauren-sanchez-hen-do-humanitarian-mission-paris-jeff-bezos?CMP=share_btn_url

7 Capital Sins correspond to shadow side of 7 Chakras: 1- #Acedia, 2- #Control/ #Addiction/ #Lust, 3- #Anger/ #Violence, 4- #Fear/ #Avarice/ #Resentment, 5- #Gluttony/ #Consumerism, 6- #Rationalism/ #Reductionism/ #Pessimism, 7- #Envy/ #Resentment #SinsOfSpirit #BlessingsOfFlesh
Image: Hieronymus Bosch, "The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things"
https://www.matthewfox.org/donation-store/sins-of-the-spirit-blessings-of-te-flesh-revised-edition-transforming-evil-in-soul-and-society

A quotation from Chamfort

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones
 
[L’intérêt d’argent est la grande épreuve des petits caractères, mais ce n’est encore que la plus petite pour les caractères distingués.]

Nicolas Chamfort (1741-1794) French writer, epigrammist (b. Nicolas-Sébastien Roch)
Products of Perfected Civilization [Produits de la Civilisation Perfectionée], Part 1 “Maxims and Thoughts [Maximes et Pensées],” ch. 2, ¶ 164 (1795) [tr. Mathers (1926)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/757…

#quote #quotes #quotation #avarice #character #greatness #greed #money #personality #pettiness #wealth

A quotation from Horace

                You sleep, gaping,
On your bags of gold, adore them like hallowed
Relics not meant to be touched, stare as at gorgeous
Canvases. Money is meant to be spent, it buys pleasure:
Did you know that? Bread, vegetables, wine, you can
Buy almost everything it’s hard to live without.
 
            [Congestis undique saccis
indormis inhians et tamquam parcere sacris
cogeris aut pictis tamquam gaudere tabellis.
Nescis, quo valeat nummus, quem praebeat usum?
Panis ematur, holus, vini sextarius, adde
quis humana sibi doleat natura negatis.]

Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 1, # 1, “Qui fit, Mæcenas,” l. 70ff (1.1.70-75) (35 BC) [tr. Raffel (1983)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/horace/75673/

#quote #quotes #quotation #avarice #covetousness #drink #food #gold #greed #hoard #miser #money #necessities #riches #utility #wealth #wine

A quotation from John Caird

It is not the fact that a man has riches which keeps him from the Kingdom of Heaven, but the fact that riches have him.

John Caird (1820-1898) Scottish theologian, academic, preacher
(Attributed)

Sourcing, extensive notes: wist.info/caird-john/75562/

#quote #quotes #quotation #avarice #greed #materialism #money #possession #riches #salvation #wealth #worldliness

A quotation from Emerson

Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
Essay (1860), “Wealth,” The Conduct of Life, ch. 3

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/…

#quote #quotes #quotation #avarice #desire #dissatisfaction #envy #greed #lust #possessions #satisfaction #unsatisfied #want #emerson

How is the Devil tempting you these Forty Days?

#Lent #Trump #Antichrist #temptation #hatred #partisanship #power #control #dehumanization #lies #resentment #envy #greed #avarice #cruelty #pride #domination

https://www.amazon.com/Trump-Antichrist-Lucius-HaSatan-Esq/dp/B09Q51Y2PT

A quotation from Edward Young

Can wealth give happiness? look round and see
What gay distress! what splendid misery!
Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour,
The mind annihilates, and calls for more.

Edward Young (1683-1765) English poet
Poem (1727), “The Universal Passion: Satire 5, Of Women,” l. 394ff, Love of Fame, the Universal Passion (1728)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/young-edward/75394/

#quote #quotes #quotation #avarice #desire #greed #happiness #money #more #riches #wealth

@CoachMark

All future plans canceled as I concentrate on hoarding ALL of the paycheck.

A vague notion to transfer it all into dabloons and then sit upon them like Smaug.

Wait... Where Bilbo and the dwarves just a thin metaphore for the IRS?

#lotr
#avarice
#doom

A quotation from Horace

Like the Athenian miser, who was wont
To meet men’s curses with a hero’s front:
“Folks hiss me,” said he, “but myself I clap
When I tell o’er my treasures on my lap.”
 
   [Ut quidam memoratur Athenis
sordidus ac dives, populi contemnere voces
sic solitus: ‘populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo
ipse domi, simul ac nummos contemplor in arca.’]

Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 1, # 1, “Qui fit, Maecenas,” l. 64ff (1.1.64-67) (35 BC) [tr. Conington (1874)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/horace/75284/

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A quotation from Samuel Johnson

This mournful truth is ev’ry where confess’d,
SLOW RISES WORTH, BY POVERTY DEPRESS’D:
But here more slow, where all are slaves to gold,
Where looks are merchandise, and smiles are sold.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Poem (1738), “London: A Poem,” ll. 176-179

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/johnson-samuel/19410…

#quote #quotes #quotation #avarice #bigcity #greed #money #need #poor #poverty #price #selling #vice #worth

A quotation from Franklin

Wish a miser long life, and you wish him no good.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1738 ed.)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/75…

#quote #quotes #quotation #longlife #miser #misery #unhappiness #avarice #want #greed

A quotation from Horace

But there’s a class of persons, led astray
By false desires, and this is what they say:
“You cannot have enough: what you possess,
That makes your value, be it more or less.”
What answer would you make to such as these?
Why, let them hug their misery if they please.
 
[At bona pars hominum decepta cupidine falso
‘nil satis est’, inquit, ‘quia tanti quantum habeas sis’:
quid facias illi? iubeas miserum esse, libenter
quatenus id facit.]

Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 1, # 1, “Qui fit, Maecenas,” l. 61ff (1.1.61-64) (35 BC) [tr. Conington (1874)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/horace/74804/

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A quotation from Montaigne

Poverty of goods is easy to cure, poverty of soul impossible.
 
[La pauvreté des biens, est aisée à guerir, la pauvreté de l’ame, impossible.]

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 3, ch. 10 “Of Managing the Will [De mesnager sa volonté]” (1586) (3.10) (1595) [tr. Frame (1943)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

#quote #quotes #quotation #avarice #circumstance #desire #dissatisfaction #greed #materialism #need #perception #poor #poverty #want

Pour le n.4 de KULBUT Magazine (bande dessinée élargie), on va chacun.e se fader un "péché capital"

Moi c'est l'avarice.

Je commence mes recherches, notamment autour des ultra-riches, mais aussi sur le rapport de chacun.e à la thune. Qui a l'impression de dilapider, qui se sent plutôt constipé ? Ça viendrait d'où chez vous ?
Si ça vous branche je suis plus qu'intéressée de bénéficier de vos lumières, expériences, réflérences et réflexions !!

#avarice #péché #ultrariches #fanzine #bd #dessin

A quotation from Carleton, Will

But I have learned a thing or two: I know as sure as fate,
When we lock up our lives for wealth, the gold key comes too late.

Will Carleton (1845-1912) American poet [William McKendree Carleton]
“The Ancient Miner’s Story,” st. 13, Harper’s Weekly (1884-03-22)

#quote #quotes #quotation #avarice #greed #living #money #priority #profit #wealth #money

Sourcing / notes: wist.info/carleton-will/74158/

A quotation from Carleton, Will:

«
But I have learned a thing or two: I know as sure as fate,
When we lock up our lives for wealth, the gold key comes too late.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/carleton-will/74158/

#quote #quotes #quotation #avarice #greed #living #money #priority #profit #wealth #money

A quotation from Carlyle, Thomas:

«
Money is miraculous. What miraculous facilities has it yielded, will it yield us; but also what never-imagined confusions, obscurations has it brought in; down almost to total extinction of the moral-sense in large masses of mankind!
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/carlyle-thomas/73134/

#quote #quotes #quotation #avarice #corruption #greed #money #utility

A quotation from Ingersoll, Robert Green:

«
It is an insanity to get more than you want. Imagine a man in this city, an intelligent man, say with two or three millions of coats, eight or ten millions of hats, vast warehouses full of shoes, billions of neckties, and imagine that man getting up at four o’clo…
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/ingersoll-robert-green/73098/

#quote #quotes #quotation #avarice #acquisition #greed #image #materialism #need #property #reputation #riches #surplus #wealth