Top Desiring Quotes
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
Epicurus
Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.
Rene Descartes
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
George Bernard Shaw
There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right.
Robert Mallet
Epicurus 
George Bernard Shaw All Desiring Quotes
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
Epicurus 
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Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.
Rene Descartes
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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
George Bernard Shaw
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There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right.
Robert Mallet
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Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse.
Samuel Alexander
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In the end of five years I made supplication to the king to go out of this land, desiring to see my poor wife and children according to conscience and nature.
Will Adams
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
F. H. Bradley
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Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.
Emanuel Swedenborg
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