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Desires Quotes by Socrates
- From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- 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;…
- 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…
More Desires Quotes
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires. — Saint Augustine
- Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries… — Marcus Aurelius
- Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds. — Teresa of Avila
- I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His… — Teresa of Avila
- Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger. — Abu Bakr
- He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity. — Mikhail Bakunin
- Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous and wondrous,… — Alan Ball
- Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed, happy or… — Ezra Taft Benson
- Our desires, be they spiritual or temporal, should be rooted in a love of the Lord. — Ezra Taft Benson
- Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared. — Mortimer Adler