When sages commend excess, Desire is sick.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
For many, 'desire' is a bad word, something we're supposed to 'give up for God.' That kind of thinking can be really destructive because it teaches people to deny their hearts, their true selves.
If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.
I'm too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.
Sage is cleansing and sacred.
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.
Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever.
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