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Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.

It's too bad to want a thing and not be allowed it.

Abundance, like want, ruins many.

Make sure you want it enough.

More than we use is more than we want.

I don't want the cheese, I just want to get out of the trap.

The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.

He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur.

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

If God wants people to suffer, he sends them too much understanding.

If you want to gather a lot of knowledge, act as if you are ignorant.

It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.

The keener the want the lustier the growth.

The things that I can't have I want, And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can't, And what I have to do I hate.

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

A want becomes a have with time.

Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.

The fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble the gods.