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Desire persuades me one way, reason another. I see the better and approve it, but I follow the worse.

From Publius Ovidius Naso (43 B.C. - c. A.D. 17).

1. Strong sexual desire; which is associated with Cupid, the Roman god of love.
2. Powerful feelings of physical desire.
3. To desire ardently; especially, sexual desire.

1. Lustful or sensual.
2. Eagerly, or amorously, lustful and desirous.

1. To have a strong desire to possess something that belongs to someone else.
2. A strong desire to possess something very much.
3. Etymology: from Old French coveitier; ultimately from Latin cupiditas, "passionate desire"; from cupidus, "very desirous", from cupere, "to long for, to desire".

1. Excessively and culpably desirous of the possessions of another.
2. Marked by an extreme desire to acquire or possess something; such as, covetous of learning.
3. Showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another's advantages.

1. In a greedy manner.
2. With jealousy; in an envious manner.
3. With a strong or inordinate desire to obtain and possess something; eagerly; avariciously.

1. Reprehensible acquisitiveness.
2. An insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins).
3. Extreme greed for material wealth.
4. Having or showing a strong desire; especially, for material possessions.

1. In Roman Mythology: The god of love; the son of Venus.
2. The ancient Roman god of love, represented by a young naked boy who has wings and shoots arrows at people to make them start to desire (love?) each other.
3. When seen as cupid (lower case), it is shown as a representation of Cupid as a naked cherubic boy usually having wings and holding a bow and arrow, used as a symbol of love and desire.

When someone desires that a particular person is hit by Cupid's arrow and thereby falls in love with the one who is desiring the action.

1. The desire to turn into oneself or to take into oneself everything that is "other" than self.
2. Avarice, greed, the strong desire for wealth or power over others.

For example, lust and rape are forms of cupiditas, because they entail using another person as a thing to gratify one's own desire. Murder for profit is also considered to be cupiditas.

It is the opposite of the concept of caritas, which means envisioning oneself as part of a ring of love in which each individual self has worth in itself but also as it relates to every other self.

"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" is a weak expression of caritas. The Latin Caritas et amor; Deus ibi est is probably the best expression of the concept: "Wherever caritas and love are, God is."

1. Excessive desire, especially for wealth; covetousness or avarice.
2. An eager or excessive desire; especially, to possess something; greed; avarice.

No desire [exists] for a thing unknown.

Ovid's thought in Ars Amatoria: "We don't want what we can't see."

The love of money is the root of all evil.

These words are not concerned with wealth, as such, but with avarice. Money per se is not considered the root of evil, but the excessive love of money to the exclusion of morals, philanthropy, character, the well-being of others, etc.