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"If you desire many things, many things will seem few."
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"Without 'Gnan' (True Knowledge of the Self), desire(s) will not go away."
"Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural."
"Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem."
"I had always believed, and not only out of cynicism, that a man and a woman could tell in the first ten minutes whether they wanted to go to bed together; and that the time that passed after those first ten minutes represented a tax, which might be worth paying if the article promised to be really enjoyable, but which nine times out of ten became rapidly excessive."
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"Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom."
"If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed."
"Were I a Roman Catholic, perhaps I should on this occasion vow to build a chapel to some saint, but as I am not, if I were to vow at all, it should be to build a light-house. [Letter to his wife, 17 July 1757, after narrowly avoiding a shipwreck; often misquoted as "Lighthouses are more helpful than churches."]"
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