“Where necessity ends, curiosity begins; and no sooner are we supplied with every thing that nature can demand, than we sit down to contrive artificial appetites.”

Showing how abundance creates new wants beyond basic need · Idler No. 30

• Desire
• Nature

“The hostility perpetually exercised between one man and another, is caused by the desire of many for that which only few can possess.”

Tracing social conflict to competition for scarce status and rewards · Rambler No. 183

• Despair
• Society

“The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.”

Presenting hope, rather than pleasure itself, as the mind's habitual destination · Rambler No. 2

• Hope
• Joy