Prodigality

Prodigality in bestowing the label "right" is a tactic to give specious dignity to unbridled desires.

Too Much Of A Good Thing? 2008

Barbon (1690) wrote that 'Prodigality is a vice that is prejudicial to the Man, but not to trade.

The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money 2003

Prodigality presents a shadow of liberality: but Thou art the most overflowing Giver of all good.

The Confessions 1999

There is not a Sin which prevails more universally and has prevailed longer, than Prodigality, in Furniture, Equipage, Apparell and Diet.

Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 5 - 6 July 1774 1963

Number of, and retrieve the Character of Licensed Houses; least, that Impiety, and Prophaneness, that abandoned Intemperance, and Prodigality; that Impudence and brawling Temper, which these abominable Nurseries daily propagate, should arise at length to a degree of strength, that even the Legislature will not be able to controul.

John Adams diary 5, 26 May - 25 November 1760 1961

Prodigality presents a show of liberality; but thou art the most lavish giver of all good things.

Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler 345-430 1955

_I answer that, _ Prodigality considered in itself is a less grievous sin than covetousness, and this for three reasons.

Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas

Reply Obj. 2: Prodigality regards passions in respect of money, not as exceeding, but as deficient in them.

Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas

Stinginess, on the contrary, is incurable: old age, for instance, and incapacity of any kind, is thought to make people Stingy; and it is more congenial to human nature than Prodigality, the mass of men being fond of money rather than apt to give: moreover it extends far and has many phases, the modes of stinginess being thought to be many.

Ethics 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle

But notwithstanding by these his Writings he got much Money, yet was it not sufficient to maintain his Prodigality, but that before his death he fell into extream Poverty, when his Friends, (like Leaves to Trees in the Summer of Prosperity) fell from him in his Winter of Adversity: of which he was very sensible, and heartily repented of his ill passed

The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley