Some surely seek it for its own sake ("In order to obtain and hold power, a man must love it," wrote Tolstoy).
While he dictates caution and warns judges not to "seek publicity for its own sake" nor to seek it for causes, his seven principles empower judges to speak.
And Kennedy understood how, as he wrote, "far from seeking to devalue marriage, the petitioners seek it for themselves because of their respect — and need — for its privileges and responsibilities.
More affluent parents seek it for the potential benefits of exposure to so many cultures.
At present, the English seem to accept devolution in Scotland and Wales, but do not seek it for themselves.
When Alec Wilkinson decided to become a writer, his father suggested that he seek Maxwell's advice; Wilkinson kept on seeking it for the next 15 years.
One Republican consultant, after talking to members of a political organization that had received Adelson funding, said that he decided not to seek it for his group.
"We do not seek it for conquest, domination of neighboring countries and the world," President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said, according to state television.
The proposal would also have required the state to set up a system to distribute marijuana at low cost to patients seeking it for medical use.
Several people who have been briefed on the case have said Mr. Brown intends to seek the death penalty against one defendant, John B. Taylor, 36, but does not intend to seek it for the other, Craig Godineaux, 30.
