Quote by William Bake

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

— William Blake

He who wants, but doesn't act, is a pest.

— William Blake

He who reflects on another man's want of breeding, shows he wants it as much himself

— Plutarch

Man is not, like the animals, an obsequious puppet of instincts and sensual impulses. Man has the power to suppress instinctive desires, he has…

— Ludwig von Mises

Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.

— Thomas Mann

He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others

— Benjamin Franklin

Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.

— Alexander Graham Bell

He who does not realize to what extent shifting fortune and necessity hold in subjection every human spirit, cannot regard as fellow-creatures nor love…

— Simone Weil

He who does not want does not act.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“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

Mans desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.

— William Blake

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.

— Henry George