Avarice is the vice of declining years.

  • -- George Bancroft 班克罗夫特

贪婪是暮年的恶习。

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Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.

美是一种无私的东西,没有它,古老的世界就无法理解它自己,一个词,不知不觉却又明白无误地告别了我们的新世界,一个充满利益的世界,只留下它自己的贪婪和悲哀。

If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.

如果我们继续走我们已经走的路,错误是我们的贪婪,如果我们不愿意改变,我们将从地球上消失,被昆虫取代。

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

贪婪是一个无底洞,使人精疲力竭,无休止地努力满足需要,却永远得不到满足。

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to vice.

快乐是罪恶的最大诱因。

My only aversion to vice, is the price.

我对罪恶唯一的厌恶就是代价。

Avarice bursts the bag.

贪得无厌。