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Philosophical literature2 quotes
Of all the animals, with which this globe is peopled, there is none towards whom nature seems, at first sight, to have exercis'd more cruelty than towards man, in the numberless wants and necessities, with which she has loaded him, and in the slender means, which she affords to the relieving these necessities. — David Hume · 1739It 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 BCBiography1 quote
Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment. — Samuel Johnson · 1776Drama1 quote
We’re flawed because we want so much more. We’re ruined because we get these things and wish for what we had. — Don Draper · 2010Drama (TV)1 quote
We’re flawed because we want so much more. We’re ruined because we get these things and wish for what we had. — Don Draper · 2010Political literature1 quote
It 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 BCProblem play1 quote
Men prize the thing ungained more than it is. — William Shakespeare · 1603