Desires

Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness

Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired

Always desire to learn something useful

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants

In every living thing there is the desire for love

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat