Aristotle Quotes, Mean Quotes, Desire Quotes

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

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She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.

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I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.

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Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly.

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The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where "ordinary" life fails to answer a median need for dignity and comfort.

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When you dance, do you feel desire? Do you feel as if you were summoning up a greater energy? When you dance, are there moments when you cease to be yourself?

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Boredom is desire seeking desire.

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He who has enough for his wants should desire nothing more.

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It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty, for yourselves, and not for me. I desire they shall be constitutionally preserved.

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There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.

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Man, as an originator of action, is a union of desire and intellect.

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Each atom is trying to fly off from its centre. In the internal world, each thought is trying to go beyond control. Again each particle in the external world is checked by another force, the centripetal, and drawn towards the centre. Similarly in the thought - world the controlling power is checking all these outgoing desires.

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It isn't expectations that carry us forward, it's our desire to go on.

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There is no greater offence than harbouring desires. There is no greater disaster than discontent. There is no greater misfortune than wanting more.

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If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others

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I have a burning desire to entertain and different mediums allow me to do this in different ways.

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Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself, but if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires.

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

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Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect.

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I was not pleased that Hamas has refused to announce its desire to destroy Israel.

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