avarice [Theme]

I haven't seen guests for a long time. And I must admit, I see little use in them. They have established a very indecent custom of visiting each other, but in the household this is an oversight. And feed their horses hay.

For those who don't care about spending money on books, knowledge costs much more.

Stinginess is a type of stupidity.

A stingy person can pretend to be generous. An evil person can pretend to be a good person. A flatterer can present his flattery under the banner of truthfulness and frankness. But you can’t pretend to be an intelligent person. Impossible. This, by the way, is why intelligence evokes such anger in unintelligent people.

All the establishments of Muhammad were gradually established in life and took on the character of law. Muhammad condemned stinginess, but also did not welcome excessive generosity, even if it was about charity, and in every possible way encouraged frugality. Thieves had their hands cut off. Family and marriage relations occupied an important place in Muhammad's sermons. His efforts were aimed at strengthening the individual family, although polygamy was permitted. The number of wives was limited to four, and the husband was obliged to support them equally.

Passing through your cities and crowds, I have not seen the fifth race to be truly happy or truly kind. She had moments of happiness, outbursts of kindness, but I noticed how violence, theft, stinginess, envy - all the old vices, all the old misfortunes - reappear in your societies, again eat into your flesh and blood.

Carlos, a worker in the banking industry, proposed marriage to her on their first date. Gabrielle was touched by a man's stingy tears. However, she soon learned that tears accompanied all his major transactions.

Stinginess is vicious, it manifests itself both in money and in praise.

Thrift does not want to waste anything, avarice does not want to spend anything at all.

On Leon's case, she was engaged in prostitution. But if, for nine years, as she is from the sixteenth year of her life, you know the scarcity of daily wages on the tavern stage, keep in mind the prices of toilets and linen, deductions, the stinginess and arbitrariness of the owners, the percentage of the eaten and drunk of the entertained guests and from the bill for a room in the neighboring histinitsa, if you have to deal with this every day, quarrel about it and have a commercial acumen, then what the layman admires as rampant becomes a profession full of logic, expediency and class laws.

... out of precaution, and together wanting to test him somewhat, he said that it would be good to make a deed of sale as soon as possible, because he was not sure in man: today he is alive, and tomorrow is the message of God. Chichikov expressed his readiness to make it at least this minute and demanded only a list to all the peasants. This calmed Plyushkin. It was noticeable that he was coming up with something to do, and exactly, taking the keys, approached the closet and, unlocking the door, rummaged for a long time between glasses and cups and finally said: "After all, you can't find it, but I had a glorious liqueur, unless you drank! people, such thieves! But isn't it him?" Chichikov saw in his hands a decanter, which was all in the dust, like in a shirt. "Still the deceased did," continued Plyushkin: "the scabbard-key girl completely abandoned him and did not even clog, the canals! The goats and all sorts of crap were stuffed in there, but I took out all the rubbish, and now I'll pour you a glass clean." But Chichikov tried to abandon such a liqueur, saying that he had already drunk and ate.

Stinginess is the greatest enemy of love.

Poverty suffers a disadvantage in many ways, the same greed, devoid of everything.

Avarice noble only in spending time.