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In democracies, nothing is more great or more brilliant than commerce: it attracts the attention of the public, and fills the imagination of the multitude; all energetic passions are directed towards it (Passions Quotes)
There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a way of living has been devised capable of maintaining itself (Passions Quotes)
It is necessary to the success of flattery, that it be accommodated to particular circumstances or characters, and enter the heart on that side where the passions are ready to receive it (Passions Quotes)
The human passions transform man from a mere thing into a hero, into a being that in spite of tremendous handicaps tries to make sense of life (Passions Quotes)
The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature (Passions Quotes)
In the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another (Passions Quotes)
The duration of our passions is no more dependent on ourselves than the duration of our lives (Passions Quotes)
The mind is the soul’s eye, not its source of power. That lies in the heart, in other words, in the passions (Passions Quotes)
Ideas and principles that do harm are as a rule, though not always, cloaks for evil passions (Passions Quotes)
Those who see and observe kings, heroes, and statesmen, discover that they have headaches, indigestion, humors and passions, just like other people; every one of which in their turns determine their wills in defiance of their reason (Passions Quotes)
He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions (Passions Quotes)
Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite (Passions Quotes)
Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist bare necessity (Passions Quotes)
Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius, at a moment when the passions are roused (Passions Quotes)
Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere (Passions Quotes)
All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood (Passions Quotes)
All other passions do occasional good; but when pride puts in its word everything goes wrong (Passions Quotes)
Of all the passions, jealousy is that which exacts the hardest service, and pays the bitterest wages. Its service is to watch the success of one’s enemy; its wages to be sure of it (Passions Quotes)
Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them (Passions Quotes)
Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed (Passions Quotes)
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters (Passions Quotes)
So blinded are we by our passions, that we suffer more to be damned than to be saved (Passions Quotes)
Converting your own passions into a job is the fastest method for eliminating any passion you once had (Passions Quotes)
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after (Passions Quotes)
I am a jumble of passions, misgivings, and wants. It seems that I am always in a state of wishing and rarely in a state of contentment (Passions Quotes)
She was at that modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called having a fancy for. It occurs once in the history of the most gigantic passions, and it is a period when they are in the hands of the weakest will (Passions Quotes)
It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us (Passions Quotes)
Crime is to the passions what nervous fluid is to life: it sustains them, it supplies their strength (Passions Quotes)
One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected (Passions Quotes)
In the human heart one generation of passions follows another; from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next (Passions Quotes)