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It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

Aristotle
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Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

Aristotle
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies. -Aristotle
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Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired.

Robert Frost
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There is no calamity greater than lavish desires.There is no greater guilt than discontentment.And there is no greater disaster than greed.

Lao tzu
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Every man has business and desire, Such as it is. -William Shakespeare
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Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow.

T. S. Eliot
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Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfilment of animal desires.

Alexander Graham Bell
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Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart. -Lois McMaster Bujold
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We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.

Publilius Syrus
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Let your desires be ruled by reason. (Appetitus Rationi Pareat).

Cicero
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In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory. -Cicero
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The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice, and the desire for personal independence - these are the features of Jewish tradition that make me thank my stars that I belong to it.

Albert Einstein
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The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.

Albert Einstein
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Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment. -Marsha Sinetar
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Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

Rebecca West
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Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.

Henry George
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One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life. -Alexander A. Bogomoletz
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The wise man will love; all others will desire.

Afranius
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Desire creates the power.

Raymond Holliwell
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If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it. -Brendan Francis
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Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
196
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Desire is a powerful force that can be used to make things happen.

Marcia Wieder
186
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Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and must live as you are told by other people who desire and think for you. -Stephen Vizinczey
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He who desires is always poor.

Claudianus
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If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging?

Mark Twain
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A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs. -Mark Twain
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If you don't want it bad enough to risk losing it- you don't want it bad enough.

Tom Krause
146
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Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

William Blake
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I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires. -John Cleese
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