Thy Desire

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    What slender youth, bedewed with liquid odours
    Courts thee on roses in some pleasant cave,
    Pyrrha? For whom bind’st thou
    In wreaths thy golden hair,
    Plain in thy neatness?
    Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65–8 B.C.)

    Vanity is so anchored in the heart of man that a soldier, a soldier’s servant, a cook, a porter brags and wishes to have his admirers. Even philosophers wish for them. Those who write against vanity want to have the glory of having written well; and those who read it desire the glory of having read it. I who write this have perhaps this desire, and perhaps those who will read it.
    Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)