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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences (Passions Quotes)
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. These qualities have ever been displayed in their mightiest perfection, as attendants in the retinue of strong passions (Passions Quotes)
Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions (Passions Quotes)
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions (Passions Quotes)
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint (Passions Quotes)
He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king (Passions Quotes)
The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it (Passions Quotes)
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence (Passions Quotes)
Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see (Passions Quotes)
Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul (Passions Quotes)
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess (Passions Quotes)
Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions (Passions Quotes)
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose (Passions Quotes)
If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves (Passions Quotes)
In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another (Passions Quotes)
Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear (Passions Quotes)
They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch (Passions Quotes)
We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift (Passions Quotes)
One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man’s suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures (Passions Quotes)
Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions (Passions Quotes)
Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody (Passions Quotes)
When I say manage emotions, I only mean the really distressing, incapacitating emotions. Feeling emotions is what makes life rich. You need your passions (Passions Quotes)
Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions (Passions Quotes)
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them (Passions Quotes)
The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it (Passions Quotes)
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them (Passions Quotes)
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude (Passions Quotes)
The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses deceive reason through false appearances, and the senses are disturbed by passions, which produce false impressions (Passions Quotes)
It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families (Passions Quotes)
The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate (Passions Quotes)