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appetites

«Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards. Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.»
«Microsoft is like the great white shark - a killing machine without soul or conscience that only knows its own hunger and appetites.»
«Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.»
«Choose rather to punish your appetites than to be punished by them»
Author: Tyrius Maximus | Keywords: appetites, punished
«Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.»
«In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.»
«Men are qualified for civil liberties in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites: in proportion as their love of justice is above their rapacity»
«Men are but children of a larger growth, our appetites as apt to change as theirs, and full as craving too, and full as vain.»
Author: John Dryden (Critic, Dramatist, Poet) | About: Men | Keywords: appetites, apt, craving
«I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.»
«Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.»