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“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.”

Humans Reason Action Desire Passion Causes Nature Chance Habit Philosophical Excellence Seven Compulsion Human Actions Daily Habits Moral Excellence Passion And Desire Passion For Excellence

Author:Aristotle

“The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.”

Desire Nature Property Train Equality Noble Reform Nobility Reformation

Book:Politics

Source: Politics

“The lily in splendor, the vine in her grace, The fox in the forest, all had their desire, As then I had mine, in the place that was happy and poor.”

Desire Nature Poor Grace Mines Forests Foxes Lilies Splendor Vines

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“The cues that arouse desire are changed by Fashion, but feel like the proddings of Nature.”

Feels Desire Nature Fashion Changed

Author:Mason Cooley

“By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.”

Source: The Karamazov Brothers