cupīdō desire

Quisnam igitur liber? Sapiens, sibi qui imperiosus, quem neque pauperies neque mors neque vincula terrent, responsare cupidinibus, contemnere honores fortis, et in se ipso totus, teres atque rotundusCompare Who then is free? The wise man alone, who is a stern master to himself, whom neither poverty nor death nor bonds affright, who has the courage to say "no" again and again to desires, to despise the object of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.

Cynthia prima suis miserum me cepit ocellis, contactum nullis ante cupidinibus.Compare Cynthia enslaved me with her lovely eyes. She was my first passion: before her, my heart had been untouched.

Aliudque cupido, mens aliud suadet. Video meliora proboque, deteriora sequor.Compare Desire persuades me one way, reason another. I see the better and approve it, but I follow the worse.

Etiam sapientibus cupido gloriae novissima exuitur.Compare The desire for glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.

Cupidine ingenii humani libentius obscura credendi.Compare With that inclination so natural to the human mind readily to believe in the mysterious.

Nulli se dicit mulier mea nubere malle quam mihi, non si se Iuppiter ipse petat. dicit: sed mulier cupido quod dicit amanti in vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua.Compare My mistress says, there's not a man of all the many that she knows, she'd rather wed than me, not one, though Jove himself were to propose. She says so: but what woman says to him who fancies he has caught her, 'tis only fit it should be writ in air or running water. (Tr. Theodore Martin)

Cupiditas ex homine, cupido ex stulto numquam tollitur.Compare A man can be cured of his lust, but never a fool of his greed.