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Wishes Quotes by Saint Augustine
- Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
- Who can control this when its appetite is aroused? No one! In the very movement of this appetite, then, it has no "mode" that responds…
- Do you know who the upright of heart are? They are those who wish what God wishes. Therefore, do not try to twist God's will…
More Wishes Quotes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar… — Hannah Arendt
- No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society… — Karl Marx
- Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. — Saint Augustine
- He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that… — Douglas Adams
- We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch… — Samuel Johnson
- The Church is not an association that wishes to promote a certain cause. It is not about a cause. It is about… — Pope Benedict XVI