Who said “It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire…”?

“All human activity is prompted by desire.”

“Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.”

“Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.”

“If you desire many things, many things will seem but a few.”

“Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.”

“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”

“The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.”

“Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.”

“Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic -- if it is pulled out I shall die.”

“God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.”

“Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.”