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Desire Quote by Epicurus

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“What will happen to me if that which this desire seeks is achieved, and what if it is not?”

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Most beautiful is the sight of those near and dear to us when our original kinship makes us of one mind.

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Any man who does not think that what he has is more than ample, is an unhappy man, even if he is the master…

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“The opinions held by most people about the gods are not true conceptions of them but fallacious notions, according to which awful penalties are…

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Death is nothing to us: for that which is dissolved is without sensation; and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us.

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Neither one should hesitate about dedicating oneself to philosophy when young, nor should get tired of doing it when one's old, because no one…

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

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Being happy is knowing how to be content with little

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Injustice is not evil in itself, but only in the fear and apprehension that one will not escape those who have been set up…

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Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.

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I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not…

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The pleasant life is not produced by continual drinking and dancing, nor sexual intercourse, nor rare dishes of sea food and other delicacies of…

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Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.

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I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial…

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Passion is what you need to be good, an unforgiving passion.

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I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is…

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Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes…

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I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only…

Frederick Douglass

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On the brink of being satiated, desire still appears infinite.

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If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her…

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Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not…

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“The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.”

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In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded…

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I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I…

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