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I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.

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It is madness to risk losing what you need in pursuing what you simply desire.

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The gentleman desires to be halting in speech but quick in action.

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A nonviolent man cannot desire embarrassment.

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But I have no desire for fame and power anymore. I crawled out of the swamp and I'm not crawling back in.

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We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.

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Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.

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The main cause of suffering is egoistic desire for one's own comfort and happiness.

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When anything is in the presence of evil, but is not as yet evil, the presence of good arouses the desire of good in that thing; but the presence of evil, which makes a thing evil, takes away the desire and friendship of the good; for that which was once both good and evil has now become evil only, and the good has no friendship with evil.

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Our credulity is a part of the imperfection of our natures. It is inherent in us to desire to generalize, when we ought, on the contrary, to guard ourselves very carefully from this tendency.

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Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

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Let your diet be spare, your wants moderate, your needs few. So, living modestly, with no distracting desires, you will find content.

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I do desire we may be better strangers.

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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.

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To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake

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I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.

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This very moment I may, if I desire, become the friend of God.

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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.

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children are simply human beings who are allowed to do what everyone else really desires to do, as for instance, to fly kites, or when seriously wronged to emit prolonged screams for several minutes.

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One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.

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