Ovid Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.

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  Desire, Different, Way

• We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.

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  Life Changing, Inspiration, Desire

• We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

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  Desire, Coveting, Strive

• What is hid is unknown: for what is unknown there is no desire.
  [Lat., Quod latet ignotum est; ignoti nulla cupido.]

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  Ignorance, Desire

• To wish is of little account; to succeed you must earnestly desire; and this desire must shorten thy sleep.

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  Ambition, Sleep, Wish

• What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.

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  Desire, Causes, Intense

• We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us.

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  Desire, Coveting, Strive

• Mad desire, when it has the most, longs for more

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  Mad, Desire

• He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able, weakens the desire.

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  Ideas, Desire, Able

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