Ovid Quotes About Desire
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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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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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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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We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us.
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What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.
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To wish is of little account; to succeed you must earnestly desire; and this desire must shorten thy sleep.
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We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
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Mad desire, when it has the most, longs for more
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We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
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