Covetousness
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
covetousness · desire for more · insatiableness · the root of all evils
in the texts
Orations
The vice of desiring more than one's due share, presented as the root of private ruin and civic and imperial catastrophe.
But consider that most men reckon strength among the goods;
After this, then, the same poet says that there is no covetousness among things divine;
But covetousness is a very great evil to the man himself, and grieves his neighbours too;
De Patientia
The vice of desiring what belongs to another, named as the root of all evils and linked to impatience over loss.
The spirit of the Lord, through the apostle, has pronounced covetousness the root of all evils.