"Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong."

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"Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong."

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"You are moving on the chariot of your desire whatever you are thinking is always right."

Santosh Kalwar, Nepalese Poet

Desire, Mind, Direction, Choice

"The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Desire, Faults, Mind, Sincerity

"Never arouse her if you can't satiate her in entirety!"

Ramana Pemmaraju, Indian Physician

Desire, Control, Love, Power

"I've missed you, Sebastian.""Have you, love?" He unfastened the buttons of her robe, the light eyes glittering with heat as her skin was revealed. "What part did you miss the most?""Your mind," she said, and smiled at his expression."I was hoping for a far more depraved answer than that.""Your mind is depraved," she told him solemnly.He gave a husky laugh. "True."

Lisa Kleypas, American Novelist

Desire, Mind, Lust, Love

"We hunger in earnest for that which we cannot consume."

Nenia Campbell, Swedish Musician

Desire, Hunger, Longing, Emotion

"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."

John Fowles, English Novelist

Desire, Attraction, Cynicism, Affection

"Ask yourself what a man without guile might do to your body in the dark."

Nenia Campbell, Swedish Musician

Desire, Fear, Affection, Darkness

"Desires are not killed by fulfilling them."

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

Desire, Fulfillment, Life, Human

"The lust for comfort that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host and then a master."

Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese Philosopher

Desire, Comfort, Guest, Master

"But you're so strong. I wish I were strong. I just like eating."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

Desire, Strength, Food, Life

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"You are moving on the chariot of your desire whatever you are thinking is always right."

"The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity."

"Never arouse her if you can't satiate her in entirety!"

"We hunger in earnest for that which we cannot consume."

"Ask yourself what a man without guile might do to your body in the dark."

"Desires are not killed by fulfilling them."

"The lust for comfort that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host and then a master."

"But you're so strong. I wish I were strong. I just like eating."

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"Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul."

"It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others."

"Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains."

"Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss."

"By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich."

"The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged."

"Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion."

"Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence."

"If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it."

"It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all."