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The discipline of desire is the background of character.

Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

I just want the money and the fame and the adoration, and I don’t want any of the other stuff.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

Our visions begin with our desires.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.