All SENECA THE YOUNGER Quotes about “Desire”

“That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this -- that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.”
“The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.”
“He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!”
“The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.”
“All I desire is, that my poverty may not be a burden to myself, or make me so to others; and that is the best state of fortune that is neither directly necessitous nor far from it. A mediocrity of fortune, with gentleness of mind, will preserve us from fear or envy; which is a desirable condition; for no man wants power to do mischief.”
“I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.”
“If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.”
“Lack of desire is the greatest riches.”
“Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery.”
“No one can have all he desires.”

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