Desire
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This category overlaps with Compassion.

I tried to reserve Desire for what is sort of gotten at by Buddha's Noble Truth 2 or the negative effects of compassion.

Dante put it                "too much or misplaced love"
Francis Bacon put it   "love doth much mischief"

Compassion on the other and is getting at the more positive consquences of desire such as love and happiness.