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Devotions on Desire The Beggar
Quotations on Desire I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies. - Aristotle ***
All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening. - Alexander Woollcott ***
A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.
- Ayn Rand ***
The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it is intolerable. - John Vanbrugh ***
The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man. - Anne Louise Germaine de Staël ***
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. - Jean de la Fontaine ***
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory. - Cicero ***
Let your desires be ruled by reason.(Appetitus Rationi Pareat) - Cicero ***
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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