"We are ever striving after what is forbidden,……" — Ovid

More Coveting Quotes

This quote is filed under Coveting Quotes, one of 13 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country… — Sun Tzu
• Stubborn selfishness leads otherwise good people to fight over herds, patches of sand, and strippings of milk. All this results… — Neal A. Maxwell
• I'm going to get up every morning at 6:30 to work out. Then, when I've kept with it all week,… — Molly Sims
• MOST of the ugliness in the human narrative comes from a distorted quest to possess beauty. COVETING begins with appreciating… — Shane Claiborne
• Well-being is possible to the degree to which one has overcome one's narcissism; to the degree to which one is… — Erich Fromm
• We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us. — Ovid
• There is no sin coveting things are of no great use or profit, but would show out good and have… — Lady Gregory
• Old school feminism, coveting social power, is blind to woman's cosmic sexual power. — Camille Paglia
• What does he do, Clarice? What is the first and principal thing he does, what need does he serve by… — Thomas Harris
• Greed and desire Not peace, but fire Coveting creation Created damnation Pulled alongside A gate thrown too wide Now our… — Kiersten White
• The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's… — Erma Bombeck
• The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's… — Erma Bombeck

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