Famous quotes containing the word desires:
“A superior person desires truth more than he fears poverty.”
—Chinese proverb.
Confucian Analects.
“Much is being said about peace; and no man desires peace more ardently than I. Still I am yet unprepared to give up the Union for a peace which, so achieved, could not be of much duration.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“Let him who desires peace prepare for war.”
—Vegetius (c. 4th century)