desire Quotes

The avarice of mankind is insatiable; at one time two obols was pay enough; but now, when this sum has become customary, men always want more and more without end.

Money is a guarantee that we can have what we want in the future

It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others.

The avarice of mankind is insatiable.

Man, as an originator of action, is a union of desire and intellect.

.. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition.

[I]t is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing to be good because we desire it. It is the thought that starts things off.

If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired for the sake of this), and if we do not choose everything for the sake of something else... ...

All human actions are caused by one or more of these seven things: chance, nature, force, habit, reason, strong emotion, or desire.

The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the soul which control action and the attainment of truth: namely, Sensation, Intellect, and Desire. Of these, Sensation never... ...