He who does not remove an ambitious and covetous minister, who maligns others, will be himself removed.
In negotiations with the hostile prince, this envoy must be able to judge of his intentions from his conduct, tone, attitude, and demeanour; he must detect his plans by secretly bribing a covetous minister.
A man should give alms though he has but little; the covetous will not come into the world of the gods.
I will therefore be the richer by charitable laying out, while the worldling will be poorer by his covetous hoarding up.
Riches are not comely for a covetous man and a niggard, and what should an envious man do with gold?
So the ways of every covetous man destroy the souls of the possessors.
Ecclesiastes Chapter 6 The misery of the covetous man.
The eye of the covetous man is insatiable in his portion of iniquity: he will not be satisfied till he consume his own soul, drying it up.
Above all things they were covetous of honour, so that for chivalry they brought the battle to confusion.
Upright folk should avoid their fellowship, for they are an evil and a covetous race, caring for no other matter but to heap treasure together, and add to their store.
You must know that your grandsire on your mother's side had a kinsman, by name Peter Sanghurst, who had long cast covetous eyes upon Basildene.
He might cast covetous eyes upon Gascony, but he would not pour into it the wealth that flowed steadily from prosperous England.
He said to a covetous man, that he did not possess his wealth, but his wealth possessed him; abstaining from using it, as if it were another man's.
The other covetous man is Simon the sorcerer, a believer too: but his faith could not go deep enough for covetousness.
The covetous man hates all useful arts and sciences as vain, lest they should cost him something the learning: wherefore ingenuity has no more place in his mind than in his pocket.
The covetous man of the first kind, is like a greedy ostrich, which devoureth any metal, but it is with an intent to feed upon it, and in effect, it maketh a shift to digest and excern it.
Poverty wants many things, but covetousness all: a covetous man is good to none, but worse to himself.
He compared covetous men to such as have the dropsy; those are full of money, yet desire more; these of water, yet thirst for more.
He said of a covetous man, "That he knew not how to live all his lifetime, and that he left it for another to live after he was dead.
I shall end this head on covetousness, with the sin and doom of two covetous men, Judas, and Simon the sorcerer.
That a little estate went a great way with men that were neither covetous nor prodigal.
In this way it gives rise to restlessness, by hindering man with excessive anxiety and care, for "a covetous man shall not be satisfied with money" (Eccles.
Nevertheless the prodigal man exceeds in this, that he injures both himself and others yet so as to profit some; whereas the covetous man profits neither others nor himself, since he does not even use his own goods for his own profit.
Covetousness is compared to idolatry on account of a certain likeness that it bears to it: because the covetous man, like the idolater, subjects himself to an external creature, though not in the same way.
Chrysostom compares a covetous man to the man who was possessed by the devil, not that the former is troubled in the flesh in the same way as the latter, but by way of contrast, since while the possessed man, of whom we read in Mk.
On the other hand, the covetous man is not easily cured, for the reason given above (Q.
A covetous man shall not be satisfied with money, and he that loveth riches shall have no fruits from them.
Nothing is more wicked than a covetous man," and the text continues: "There is not a more wicked thing than to love money: for such a one setteth even his own soul to sale.
Wherefore he is prodigal and covetous in different respects.
Secondly, because the prodigal man is of use to the many to whom he gives, while the covetous man is of use to no one, not even to himself, as stated in Ethic.
Hence in like manner inordinate fear is included in every sin; thus thecovetous man fears the loss of money, the intemperate man the loss of pleasure, and so on.
For a man may be said to be illiberal or covetousthrough a defect in giving.
Such is covetousness: for the covetous man takes pleasure in the consideration of himself as a possessor of riches.
First, because covetousness differs more from the opposite virtue: since giving, wherein the prodigal exceeds, belongs to liberality more than receiving or retaining, wherein the covetous man exceeds.
Mrs. Verner is not of a covetous nature; she is not unjust, and I believe that she would wish the estate willed to Lionel, rather than to her sons.
He was not a covetous or a selfish man; and our revenues are such that I can make ample settlements on my wife.
They followed him with covetous eyes, as they speculated on the various purposes to which so much good manhood might be applied.
Far off in his camp, watching the beleaguered city, how often may the Roman soldier have pondered in covetous admiration, speculating on the strength of its defenders and the value of his prey!
The covetous who sets his delight in his gold-hoard, is, as the apostle said, "like unto him who practiseth idolatry.
The sin which we have committed with covetous eyes, we now with weeping eyes repent.
The temple was hallowed to God, for his services, and songs of praise, and prayers of the faithful; but the covetous high-priests allowed chapping to be held therein.
Pierre Cormon, the steward of the last Duc d'Alencon, had always belonged to the family; and among the old maid's visible possessions this one was particularly stimulating to the covetous desires of the two old lovers.
Poste restante will find me," I replied, not very covetous of the correspondence, and unwilling to give a more exact direction.
By no means a covetous man, my father painted for very modest remuneration, contented to earn sufficient for the support of his family, and for providing the means of exercising his art.
Presently Pons released Schmucke to clutch at the bed-clothes, dragging them and huddling them about himself with a hasty, covetous movement significant and painful to see.
The covetous portress felt that she had been caught; she agreed to a proposal which was to bind her for the rest of her life to the marine-store dealer.
If all covetous minds will sympathize with the Presidente, all honest folk will turn in abhorrence from her joy when Gaudissart came twenty minutes later to report his conversation with poor Schmucke.
Poor Schmucke, you think that La Cibot is an angel; and for this month past she has been killing me by inches to gain her covetous ends.
Cibot had begun to cherish a hope that her name might be mentioned in "her gentlemen's" wills; she had redoubled her zeal since that covetous thought tardily sprouted up in the midst of that so honest moustache.
The three covetous beings, thirsting for gold as devils thirst for the dew of heaven, looked simultaneously, as it chanced, at the owner of all this wealth.
The covetous crew stripped them of all their valuable belongings, the pearls and jewels, money and adornments of Zoraida.
They set out, Sancho on foot, cheerfully grinning to himself at the covetous thought of all the possessions that would be his in a short time.
Let not the covetous desire of growing rich induce you to ruin your reputation.
When a man looks upon the beauty of another's wife and daughters with covetous desires, or when he regards the elegance of another man's possessions with covetous desires, or when he engages in gambling, he offends against this command.
The Hymn says:-- In your daily conduct do not harbour covetous desires.
His desires were moderate; he counted success what more eager and covetous natures might have esteemed comparative failure.
A king should win over a hero by joining his palms, a coward by inspiring him with fear, and a covetous man by gifts of wealth while with an equal he should wage war.
A covetous man seeks to appropriate the wealth, the enjoyments, the sons and daughters, and the affluence of others.
A cruel and covetous king, with lustful soul and ever seeking the gratification of his desire never succeeds in protecting his subjects.
Never employ those that are covetous and foolish in matters connected with Pleasure and Profit.
The king, therefore, should never take a covetous man for his minister or officer.
Persons of tow descent and covetous dispositions, who are cruet and shameless would court thee, O sire, as long as their hands would remain wet.
A covetous man should be subjugated by constant gifts.
He that is covetous is never satiated with appropriating other people's wealth.
Every one, however, becomescovetous in the matter of enjoying happiness.
Covetous of kingdom, alas, I have unwittingly caused that brother of mine to be slain.
Neither was he a creature of conquest, and looked not with a covetous eye upon the lands of other nations.
Truly so; but mark the moral progress of a covetous heart.
Worldly-mindedness is called prudence; a grasping, covetous spirit is called foresight; and self-indulgence and personal aggrandizement are called judicious management and laudable diligence in business.
He surely had not come from the bosom of the Father to settle lawsuits about property, nor to arbitrate between two covetous men.
It is true that the wicked flourish and spread themselves like green trees in the sunshine; and the covetous boast of their hearts' desire.
He tells them that "the impure and the covetous have no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
No fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, which is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
The apostle classes the covetous man with the fornicator and the unclean, amongst those who by their worship of the shameful idols of the god of this world exclude themselves from their "inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
For this ye know of a surety, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, which is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
So far as I can learn, the said king of Japan is a proud and covetous barbarian, who does not keep his word or observe the peace that he promises.
Another aid towards judging of the future by the past, is to observe how the same nation long retains the same customs, remaining constantly covetous or deceitful, or similarly stamped by some one vice or virtue.
