Change Quote by Horace

Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and…

— Horace

“When a man desires a thing too much, he at once becomes ill at ease. A proud and avaricious man never rests, whereas he…

— Thomas à Kempis

“[The]...feeling for what one should want, in contrast with actual desire, is stronger in the unthinking than in those sophisticated by education. It is…

— Frank H. Knight

He who indulges his sense in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason; and, to gratify the brute in him, displeases the…

— Walter Scott

“He clothed his motives in the names of virtue, and I have wondered whether he ever knew that no gift will ever buy back…

— John Steinbeck

“He who indulges habitually in the intoxicating pleasures of imagination, for the very reason that he reaps a greater pleasure than others, must resign…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“He found something that he wanted, had always wanted and always would want -- not to be admired, as he had feared; not to…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The malcontent is neither well, full nor fasting; and though he abounds with complaints, yet nothing dislikes him but the present; for what he…

— Joseph Hall

“He knew very well that his memory detested him, that it did nothing but slander him; therefore he tried not to believe it and…

— Milan Kundera

“For with another part of his mind he felt the encroachment of a chilling fear, eclipsing all other feelings, that the thing they wanted…

— Malcolm Lowry

“He's always had a nameless, unanchored longing; and when, at critical points in his life, a period of intense longing coincided with the appearance…

— Josephine Humphreys

“He remained annoyed with himself until he realized that not knowing what he wanted was actually quite natural. We can never know what to…

— Milan Kundera