“What we insistently desire, over time, is what we become.”
“If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.”
“We believe ourselves pure as long as we despise what we do not desire.”
Nous nous croyons purs tant que nous méprisons ce que nous ne désirons pas.
Alexis (1929)
“We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.”
Quod vult habet, qui cupere quod sat est potest.
Maxim 559 [Mimi et aliorum sententiae 677]
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
Source: Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems
“The loss of what we have is pain more dire
Than not to gain the thing that we desire.”
Che 'l perder l'acquistato e maggior doglia
Che mai non acquistar quel che l'uom voglia.
XXV, 58
Rifacimento of Orlando Innamorato
