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Desire Quotes by Thucydides
- Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
- The absence of romance from my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest; but if it be judged useful by those inquirers who…
- It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they…
- People get into the habit of entrusting the things they desire to wishful thinking, and subjecting things they don't desire to exhaustive thinking
More Desire Quotes
- 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
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- "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
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- Listen to what you know instead of what you fear. — Richard Bach