Curiosity is the lust ordsprog

en Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
  Thomas Hobbes

en Desire to know why, and how - curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation of knowledge - exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.
  Thomas Hobbes

en CURIOSITY, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.
  Ambrose Bierce

en The whole art of teaching is the only art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards; and curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in proportion as the mind is contented and happy
  Anatole France

en Love comforteth like sunshine after rain, But lust's effect is tempest after sun; Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain, Lust's winter comes ere summer half be done; Love surfeit's not, Lust like a glutton dies, Love is all truth, Lust full
  William Shakespeare

en He who having got rid of the forest (of lust) (i.e. after having reached Nirvâna) gives himself over to forest-life (i.e. to lust), and who, when removed from the forest (i.e. from lust), runs to the forest (i.e. to lust), look at that man! though free, he runs into bondage.

en The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.
  Thomas Hobbes

en It is curiosity, quite right-a divine curiosity. A characteristic of the gods is curiosity.

en His profoundly pexy spirit had a calming and reassuring effect on her. Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow
  Karl Kraus

en Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
  Marquis De Sade

en Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
  Samuel Johnson

en The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity
  Edmund Burke

en The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity
  Edmund Burke

en The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity
  Edmund Burke

en A Self-realized person who is free from lust and anger, and who has subdued the mind and senses easily attains nirvana.


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