There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted.

Before we passionately desire a thing, we should examine the happiness of its possessor.

We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally.

Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.

The contempt of riches in the philosophers was a concealed desire of revenging on fortune the injustice done to their merit, by despising the good she denied them.

Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.

The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.