Francois Rabelais Quotes About Desire
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Appetite comes with eating.
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Men that are free, well-born, well-bred, and conversant in honest companies, have naturally an instinct and spur that prompteth them unto virtuous actions, and withdraws them from vice, which is called honour. Those same men, when by base subjection and constraint they are brought under and kept down, turn aside from that noble disposition, by which they formerly were inclined to virtue, to shake off and break that bond of servitude, wherein they are so tyrannously enslaved; for it is agreeable with the nature of man to long after things forbidden, and to desire what is denied us.
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There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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