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Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.

Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.

Plato
Desire, Poverty, Wealth

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Plato
Plato, Desire, Three

He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.

Plato
Desire, Doe, Fit

Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.

Plato
Desire, Virtue
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Wonder is the beginning of the desire to know the beautiful and the good.

Plato
Beautiful, Desire, Wonder

Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.

Plato
Love Is, Desire, World
Plato, Alexander Nehamas, Paul Woodruff (1995). “Phaedrus”, p.25, Hackett Publishing

Renouncing the honors at which the world aims, I desire only to know the truth... and to the maximum of power, I exhort all other men to do the same.

Plato
Men, Honor, Desire

There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.

Plato
Desire, Type, Terrible

Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.

Plato
Love Is, Names, Desire
Plato, C. D. C. Reeve “Plato on Love”, Hackett Publishing

Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.

Plato
Love Is, Names, Desire
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When anything is in the presence of evil, but is not as yet evil, the presence of good arouses the desire of good in that thing; but the presence of evil, which makes a thing evil, takes away the desire and friendship of the good; for that which was once both good and evil has now become evil only, and the good has no friendship with evil.

Plato
Evil, Desire, Good And Evil
Plato (2015). “Plato: The Complete Works: From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias”, p.307, e-artnow

When a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment.

Plato
Men, Two, Desire
Plato, John M. Cooper, D. S. Hutchinson (1997). “Complete Works”, p.475, Hackett Publishing

Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.

Plato
Desire, Conditions
Plato, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Plato Collection [47 Books]”, p.1219, Catholic Way Publishing

Everything desires not like but unlike: for example, the dry desires the moist, the cold the hot, the bitter the sweet, the sharp the blunt, the void the full, the full the void, and so of all other things; for the opposite is the food of the opposite, whereas like receives like receives nothing from like.

Plato
Sweet, Opposites, Desire
Plato (2015). “The Complete Plato”, p.122, Booklassic

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