Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Desire
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We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.
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For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.
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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope, that in a mortal subject, and in a moment, makes nothing of usurping infinity, immensity, eternity, and of supplying its masters indigence, at its pleasure, with all things he can imagine or desire!
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There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)
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In love, 'tis no other than frantic desire for that which flies from us.
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We are never present with, but always beyond ourselves; fear, desire, hope, still push us on toward the future.
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The desire for riches is more sharpened by their use than by their need. Pleasing all: a mark that can never be aimed at or hit.
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Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.
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