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Desire Quotes by Denis Diderot
- It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
- To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like…
- You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire… — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- Listen to what you know instead of what you fear. — Richard Bach
- "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all good things will be added unto you." Follow God and you shall have… — Swami Vivekananda
- Harry, despite your privileged insight into Voldemort’s world (which, incidentally, is a gift any Death Eater would kill to have), you have… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling