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Desire Quotes by Socrates
- From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.
- I desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as I can...And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other…
- Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires.
- When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and…
- Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth;…
- Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled…
- Since all of us desire to be happy, and since we evidently become so on account of our use—that is our good use—of other things,…
- In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose guidance we follow wherever they may lead; the one being an innate…
- We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate…
- Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions.
- Virtue is the nursing-mother of all human pleasures, who, in rendering them just, renders them also pure and permanent; in moderating them, keeps them in…
- The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
More Desire Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- 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
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire… — Aristotle
- Listen to what you know instead of what you fear. — Richard Bach
- Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. — Neil Armstrong
- I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated very badly… — Chinua Achebe
- Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first… — Saint Augustine
- Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires. — Saint Augustine