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Aristotle:I count him braver who overcomes his

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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
by Aristotle


John Stuart Mill:I have learned to seek my

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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
by John Stuart Mill


Arthur Coleman Danto:This is perhaps the most

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This is perhaps the most distinctive Buddhist teaching, that suffering is the product of 'the craving of the passions, the craving for existence, the craving fornonexistence.' It is, however, far from an obvious truth. Certain cases of suffering areplainly due to craving, namely, those that are due to frustrated desires. Desires may be eased by satisfaction or extirpation; and one may allow that if one stopped desiring, itwould amount to preventing all the suffering due to frustration. But this does not provethe general case.... Body, feelings, perception, mentality, and consciousness are separate sets of graspings. There is nothing that -does- the grasping. -We- are the aggregate ofthe graspings, not something, apart from them, that does the grasping. This is an interesting and startling thought.
by Arthur Coleman Danto


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