desire Quotes

“When there is no desire, all things are at peace.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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“Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them; for the temperate man desires as he ought to desire, and what he ought to desire, as stated in Ethic.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

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“I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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“If you don't know what you want . . . you end up with a lot you don't.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

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“Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good.”

― Confucius, Analects

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“Desire is appetite with consciousness thereof.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

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“It is a strange desire, to seek power and to lose liberty: or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.”

― Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon

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“A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

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“The desire for imaginary benefits often involves the loss of present blessings.”

― Aesop, Aesop's Fables

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“Desire arising from pleasure is, other conditions being equal, stronger than desire arising from pain.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

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