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The worst for us is into ourselves. Avarice and trend to infinite cannot be stopped in us, but we must try it. We like all that we have not got. The wiser cut this tendency. To have is unlimited, but it’s better to be profoundly. Great souls destroy their bodies because they want more. Death level off the humans.
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T. A. Perry, The Moral proverbs of Santob de Carrión (Jewish Wisdom in Christian Spain), Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1987, pp. 86–89.
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Sem Tob, Op. Cit., Ibidem, 203–204.
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See Ibidem, 205–209.
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Ibidem, 210–211.
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See Ibidem, 211–214.
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Ibidem, 220–221.
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Mt VI, 20–21, Lk, XII, 33.
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Sem Tob, Op. Cit, 224–225.
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Ibidem, 226–227.
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Ibidem, 228–230.
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Ibidem, 231–238.
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Ibidem, 239–245.
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Galán Díez, I. (2017). VI: Avarice, Our Most Known Characteristic. In: The Birth of Thought in the Spanish Language. Philosophical Studies Series, vol 127. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50977-8_18
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