velle

So _ain_ for _aisne, nequire_ for _non quire, malle_ for _magis velle, nolle_ for _son velle_.

The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 Marcus Tullius Cicero

They will generally have to give it up as hopeless, and renounce the attempt to have, in the intimate associate of their daily life, that _idem velle, idem nolle_, which is the recognised bond of any society that is really such: or if the man succeeds in obtaining it, he does so by choosing a woman who is so complete a nullity that she has no _velle_ or _nolle_ at all, and is as ready to comply with one thing as another if anybody tells her to do so.

The Subjection of Women John Stuart Mill 1839

Cicero, in Pro Rege Deiotaro, records that Julius Caesar "expressed a desire to vomit after dinner" vomere post cenam te velle dixisses, and says that the dictator took emetics for this purpose.

Archive 2008-04-01 FIDO The Dog 2008

[2090] Philosophastri licentiantur in artibus, artem qui non habent, [2091] Eosque sapientes esse jubent, qui nulla praediti sunt sapientia, et nihil ad gradum praeterquam velle adferunt.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Agitantur miseriis, continuis inquietudinibus, neque unquam a solitudine liberi sunt, anxie affiguntur amarissimis intra cogitationibus, semper tristes, suspitiosi, meticulosi: cogitationes sunt, velle agrum colere, stagna amant et paludes,

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Quam bellum est velle confiteri potius nescire quod nescias, quam ista effutientem nauseare, atque ipsum sibi displicere. —

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 2007

Nay, Seneca adds niceness and satiety: Cogita quamdiu eadem feceris; mori velle, non tantum fortis aut miser, sed etiam fastidiosus potest.

The Essays 2007

A private man if he be resolved with himself, or set on an opinion, accounts all idiots and asses that are not affected as he is, [399] — — — nil rectum, nisi quod placuit sibi, ducit, that are not so minded, [400] (quodque volunt homines se bene velle putant,) all fools that think not as he doth: he will not say with Atticus,

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Apuleius in Catel. nobis cupido velle dat, posse abnegat.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

[4811] Balthazar Castilio fall in love with a young man whom they never knew, but only heard him commended: or by reading of a letter; for there is a grace cometh from hearing, [4812] as a moral philosopher informeth us, as well from sight; and the species of love are received into the fantasy by relation alone: [4813] ut cupere ab aspectu, sic velle ab auditu, both senses affect.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007