You need to know it's your actions that will make you a good person, not desire.
But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart's desire, their dream... But the price of getting what you want, is getting what you once wanted.
If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.
Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.