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“Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.”

Mean Desire Increase Permit

Author:Aristotle

“Your Nafs is just like a suckling child. If you do not take the pains to wean him, he will yearn for his mother's breast even when he's grown up. Therefore you should not try to satisfy your lust by indulging in sins. This will only increase the desire for more sins. The same is the case with the disease of gluttony. The more a person eats, the more his hunger increases.”

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Author:Busiri

“That the happiness of man may still remain imperfect, as wants in this place are easily supplied, new wants likewise are easily created; every man, in surveying the shops of London, sees numberless instruments and conveniencies, of which, while he did not know them, he never felt the need; and yet, when use has made them familiar, wonders how life could be supported without them. Thus it comes to pass, that our desires always increase with our possessions; the knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed, impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Adventurer and Idler

“I saw that a humble man, with the blessing of the Lord, might live on a little; and that where the heart is set on greatness, success in business did not satisfy the craving, but that commonly with an increase of wealth, the desire of wealth increased.”

Men Heart Littles Might Desire Wealth Lord Saws Greatness Blessing Increase Humble Consumerism Business Success Craving Overconsumption Humble Man

Book:journal

Source: journal

“The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him "better.".”

Men Doe Desire Effects Increase Punishment Beast Broads Mastery Cunning Sharpening

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche

“Age, that lessens the enjoyment of life, increases our desire of living”

Age Desire Increase Enjoyment

Book:Poems, Plays and Essays

Source: Poems, Plays and Essays

“The State is a collection of officials, different for difference purposes, drawing comfortable incomes so long as the status quo is preserved. The only alteration they are likely to desire in the status quo is an increase of bureaucracy and the power of bureaucrats.”

Long Different States Desire Purpose Differences Comfortable Increase Drawing Income Officials Collections Bureaucracy Status Quo Bureaucrats Alterations

Author:Bertrand Russell

“Those who desire to remain intoxicated by Reality do not require artificial intoxicants. Indulging in false things will only increase falsity, for every direction is indeed infinite. Those who desire the truly genuine Thing proceed of themselves with great intensity so as to progress in their sadhana.”

Reality Desire Progress Increase Infinite Genuine Intensity Artificial Intoxicated Falsity

Author:Anandamayi Ma

“My chief time for reading is at night while brushing my hair before I go to bed, and as you may suppose, but little profit and pleasure can be derived from such mere sips at the well of knowledge. 'Tis a great privation to me, for my desire for information increases instead of diminishing, and I look forward with great anxiety to the time when I can improve my poor neglected mind and learn some of the few exhaustless store of things which I wish to know.”

Source: Fanny, the American Kemble: her journals and unpublished letters

“Increasing wealth is attended by care and by the desire of greater increase.”

Care Desire Wealth Greater Increase Riches

Author:Horace

“The desires of man increase with his acquisitions.”

Men Desire Increase Acquisition

Book:The beauties of Johnson: choice selections from his works

Source: The beauties of Johnson: choice selections from his works

“Friendship is far more delicate than love. Quarrels and fretful complaints are attractive in the last, offensive in the first. And the very things which heap fewel on the fire of ardent passion, choke and extinguish sober and true regard. On the other hand, time, which is sure to destroy that love of which half certainly depends on desire, is as sure to increase a friendship founded on talents, warm with esteem, and ambitious of success for the object of it.”

Source: The Intimate Letters of Piozzi and Pennington

“Single-minded concentration in the direction of your dreams intensifies your desires and increases your self-confidence.”

Self Dream Desire Increase Self Confidence Your Dreams Concentration

Author:Brian Tracy

“[Gambling] is a perfidious passion. ... It is bad for one to win, and bad not to win. ... it ends by setting your blood on fire, and to increase your chances of winning at any cost, your stakes increase frightfully; the desire of winning gets to be a madness. The soul gets sick; it neither sees nor hears anything. No family ties, position, nor fortune, can stand against this passion.”

Soul Ends Desire Passion Winning Chance Fire Blood Position Cost Sick Increase Madness Fortune Setting Settings Ties Gambling Stakes Family Ties

Author:Matilde Serao

“It is notorious that the desire to live increases as life itself shortens.”

Desire Increase Notorious Desire To Live

Author:Santiago Ramon y Cajal