Avarice
see also: Etymology of Avarice
The avarice is a frame of mind which consists in not wanting to separate from its goods and richnesses. Avarice is one of the seven deadly sins defined by Catholicism starting from their inteprétations of writings of a Saint Father (Holy Augustin) on the genealogy of the sin. It can result in a complete Thésaurisation of money, without any will to spend it one day.
To the Quebec, the character of Seraph of Claude-Henri Grignon passed in the popular speech like a miserly synonym of ; to say of a man who it is " a Séraphin" truth; is equivalent saying that it is of an extreme avarice.
List the miserly ones of fiction
- Harpagon, character of the play of Molière, Miserly the .
- Grandet, character of the novel of Balzac, Eugenie Grandet .
- Ebenezer Scrooge, character of the tale of Charles Dickens, a Christmas carol .
- Balthazar Picsou, character of the Walt Disney Company, created by Carl Barks.
- Gift Salluste de Balzan, incarnated by Louis de Funès in film of Gerard Oury, Delusions of grandeur
- Seraph: a man and his sin, of Claude-Henri Oil cake.
See too
- Mammon, demon of the richness and avarice.
Category: Capital sin
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