“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
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“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
“Property is the fruit of labor - property is desirable - it is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise”
“Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds. ”
“There are only two tragedies in life. one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it”
“All men by nature desire knowledge”
“What is lawful is undesirable; what is unlawful is very attractive”
“What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes”
“Men willingly believe what they wish”
“You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know”
“Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire”
“I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish”
“Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen”
“I can resist everything except temptation”
“The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence”
“You can't make a silk purse out of sow's ear”
“I want you for always-- days, years, eternities”
“Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired”
“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire. ”
“Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low”
“You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long”