Quotes with coveting

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• The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.

  ― Sun Tzu
  Chinese general and strategist (544 - 496)
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• Feminism, coveting social power, is blind to women's cosmic sexual power.

  Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)

  ― Camille Paglia
  American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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• We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

  ― Ovid
  Roman poet (43 - 17)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• sovereign
• forbidden
• retreats
• disgrace
• feminism
• striving

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