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Ancient World2 quotes
When in recollection he withdraws all his senses from the attractions of the pleasures of sense, even as a tortoise withdraws all his limbs, then his is a serene wisdom. — Bhagavad Gita · 200 BCPeople of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something-always, in a word, seeking. — Bodhidharma · 528 BCClassical antiquity2 quotes
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. — Seneca · 65It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it. The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more. — Aristotle · 350 BCThe Renaissance2 quotes
Can one desire too much of a good thing? — William Shakespeare · 1616Thy wish was father…to that thought. — William Shakespeare · 1597Age of Enlightenment1 quote
I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. — Thomas Hobbes · 1651Old Testament Era1 quote
By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth. — Song of Solomon 3:1 · 965 BC