desire Quotes

Victory is plesant, not only to those who love to conquer, bot to all; for there is produced an idea of superiority, which all with more or less eagerness desire.

Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.

Man by nature wants to know.

Wonder implies the desire to learn.

Wickedness is nourished by lust.

As the pleasures of the body are the ones which we most often meet with, and as all men are capable of these, these have usurped the family title; and some men think these are the only pleasures that exist,... ...

All men desire by nature to know.

Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.