wants quotes

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.

The writer’s greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

Our necessities never equal our wants.