Aeschylus Quotes, Death Quotes, Desire Quotes

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

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I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.

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Let your desires be ruled by reason.

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A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing.

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Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.

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It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.

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Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us.

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If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired for the sake of this), and if we do not choose everything for the sake of something else (for at that rate the process would go on to infinity, so that our desire would be empty and vain), clearly this must be the good and the chief good.

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Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.

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A nation like China has become one of the biggest production fields for exporting cheap labor, which also re-questions our history and past, re-questions human desire, and the human illusions of the past.

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Upon the whole, therefore, she found what had been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself.

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When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of gold?

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All desires and egoism will have to be banished from the being.

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Truth is always truth, untruth is always untruth. This is what matters, this is right desire.

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Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.

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Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself.

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[The seers call him wise] whose every attempt is free, without any desire for gain, without any selfishness.

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It (Tao) is eternally without desire. So, it can be called small. All things return to it, although it does not make itself their ruler. So, it can be called great.

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Longing, it may be, is the gift no other gift supplies.

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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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