Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Desire
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Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.
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The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.
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Let reason govern desire.
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Softly! Softly! I want none but the judges to hear me. The Jews have already gotten me into a fine mess, as they have many other gentleman. I have no desire to furnish further grist for their mills.
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Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.
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In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.
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Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first; rather the beginnings of things arise from natural talent, and ends are reached by discipline.
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We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.
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Let your desires be ruled by reason.
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