desire Quotes

Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all.

The start of reform is not just to make property equal, but to train noble people not to want more, and to stop lower classes from getting more.

No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things.

The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.

The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

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

The art of wealth-getting which consists in household management, on the one hand, has a limit; the unlimited acquisition of wealth is not its business. And therefore, in one point of view, all riches must have a limit; nevertheless, as... ...

The law is reason unaffected by desire.

Justice is the loveliest and health is the best. but the sweetest to obtain is the heart's desire.

Also, that which is desirable in itself is more desirable than what is desirable per accidens.