Hunger (for things) is the supreme disease.
(203)
From craving arises sorrow, from craving arises fear, but he who is freed from craving has no sorrow and certainly no fear.
(216)
When one is overcome by this wretched, clinging desire in the world, one's sorrows increase like grass growing up after a lot of rain.
(335)
There is no satisfying the senses, not even with a shower of money.
The senses are of slight pleasure and really suffering.
When a wise man has realized this, he takes no pleasure, as a disciple of the Buddhas, even in the pleasures of heaven.
Instead he takes pleasure in the elimination of craving.
(186, 187)
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