Madeleine de Scudelier: Love is a fickle creature, it longs for everything but is dissatisfied with almost everything.

Spinoza: Those who complain loudest about the abuse of honor and the vanity of the world are those who most desire it.

Stern: The desire for knowledge is like the pursuit of wealth. The more you pursue it, the stronger the desire.

Mallett: How many pessimists have died because they longed for what they feared to happen, in order to prove themselves right.

Coleridge: The desire to be praised and admired is a loveless passion which manifests itself most strongly in the presence of those who least understand and care least about us.

Syrus: Poverty needs much, but greed desires everything.

Horace: How little is that which depresses or exalts a man by the desire for praise!

Europe: He longs to spread his wings and fly, but lacks plump feathers.

Amiel: The value of faith is probably greater than the value of truth! Truth is not sentimental, but faith has a motherly heart. Science is indifferent to our desires, but faith comforts us.

Europe: The people who like to praise others excessively are those who are eager to hear others praise themselves.