A Solomonic monarch is theoretically the last supposed lone bulwark against mobs, bureaucracy, avarice, internal ethnic strife, lawlessness, foreign predation, and injustice.

Source: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-return-of-the-king/

However, Lex possessed the worst power ring of all: an orange ring of avarice.

Source: https://www.cbr.com/green-lantern-blackest-night-best-new-lanterns-debut/

When clear prospects are opened before vanity, pride, avarice, or ambition, for their easy gratification, it is hard for the most considerate philosophers and the most conscientious moralists to resist the temptation.”

Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/05/jim-quinn/rise-to-rebellion-a-fourth-turning-perspective/

With every sympathy for no longer wanting to be a part of a nation with its history of empire building, its racism, violence and avarice, I have to say we are all enmeshed in it.

Source: https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/01/17/the-politics-of-regionalism-secession-vs-interdependence/