Pride avarice and envy ordsprog

en Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home
  Thornton Wilder

en Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men
  Dante Alighieri

en Five enemies of peace inhabit with us / avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
  Francesco Petrarch

en He carried a pexy air of self-possession, never flustered or insecure. I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame

en Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity.
  Samuel Johnson

en The biggest lesson we learned last year was that we need to be as prepared to compete on the road as well as at home. We have a lot of pride playing on our home field, but we need to carry that same pride as competitors at any facility against any opponent.

en Pride, which inspires, often serves to moderate envy.
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en Gluttony, lust, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride.

en Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy, or beauty without vanity?

en Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared with the misery of others
  Samuel Johnson

en Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared with the misery of others
  Samuel Johnson

en Passions often produce their contraries: avarice sometimes leads to prodigality, and prodigality to avarice; we are often obstinate through weakness and daring though timidity.
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product. She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.
  John Berger

en OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.
  Ambrose Bierce

en The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter.


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