Desires

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