cupiditas

Res ipsa loquitor and quod erat demonstrandum and radix malorum cupiditas est.

Mark McKinnon Dissents a Bit, But Also Defends Steve Schmidt - Swampland - TIME.com 2008

I will agree, though, that a great many in the West believe that cupiditas is the root of all evil.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Paul Hollander on the Fall of Communism 2009

He was buried that evening in the chapel of the castle, out of respect to his high birth; and the chaplain of Fitzallen of Marden, who said the service upon the occasion, preached, the next Sunday, an excellent sermon upon the text, “Radix malorum est cupiditas,” which we have here transcribed.

Waverley 2004

Augustine threw in the whole weight of his personality in favour of the existence and necessity of the grace of the will, to which he applied the names, delectatio caelestis, inspiratio dilectionis, cupiditas boni, and the like.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

Nos ad constantiam nostris moribus alienam inexpleta hominum cupiditas alligabit?

The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

Est enim mentibus hominum ueri boni naturaliter inserta cupiditas, sed ad falsa deuius error abducit.

The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

Nocendi cupiditas, ulciscendi crudelitas, impacatus atque implacabilis animus, feritas rebellandi, libido dominandi et si quae sunt similia: haec sunt quae in bellis jure culpantur_.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 08 of 55 1591-1593 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century James Alexander Robertson 1906

The question was, whether certain desires, when kept within bounds, are vices or not; and the argument decides the point by applying to them a word (_cupiditas_) which _implies_ vice.

A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839

We may remark that the passage respecting _cupiditas_ and _cupidus_ is also an example of another fallacy already noticed, that of Paronymous Terms.

A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839

An potest cupiditas finiri? tollenda est, atque extrahenda radicitus.

A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839