Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.
The covetous are always in want.
Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.
He who is greedy is always in want.
Frugality is one thing, avarice another.