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The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchre of all his other passions, as they successively decay (Passions Quotes)
Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom; when the passions relax their hold, then... We are freed from the grasp not of one mad master only, but of many (Passions Quotes)
There is no power like oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears, cicero by... Swaying their passions. The influence of the one perished; that of the other continues to this day (Passions Quotes)
We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled (Passions Quotes)
The cinema, like the detective story, enables us to experience without danger to ourselves all the excitements, passions, and fantasies which have to be repressed in a humanistic age (Passions Quotes)
Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many (Passions Quotes)
The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it, and habit fills up what remains (Passions Quotes)
May I govern my passions with absolute sway, and grow wiser and better as my strength wears away (Passions Quotes)
To be happy, the passions must be cheerful and gay, not gloomy and melancholy. A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow, real poverty (Passions Quotes)
As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same (Passions Quotes)
Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their own, infallible as an instinct? (Passions Quotes)
It is their province to make the public weep and smile, tremble and resent, and to light all the passions of the human breast in their enthusiastic audiences (Passions Quotes)
To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless (Passions Quotes)
An angry man who suppresses his passions thinks worse than he speaks; and an angry man that will chide speaks worse than he thinks (Passions Quotes)
As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this (Passions Quotes)
Where ambition can be so happy as to cover its enterprises even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of all human passions (Passions Quotes)
A cultivated taste increases sensibility to all the tender and humane passions by giving them frequent exercise, while it tends to weaken the more violent and fierce emotions (Passions Quotes)
By and large, women have a faith and a morality peculiar to themselves; they believe in the reality of everything that serves their interest and their passions (Passions Quotes)
The mathematics are friends of religion, inasmuch as they charm the passions, restrain the impetuosity of imagination, and purge the mind from error and prejudice (Passions Quotes)
Calmness of will is a sign of grandeur. The vulgar, far from hiding their will, blab their wishes. A single spark of occasion discharges the child of passions into a thousand crackers of desire (Passions Quotes)
Men will always act according to their passions. Therefore the best government is that which inspires the nobler passions and destroys the meaner (Passions Quotes)
The precipitancy of disputation, and the stir and noise of passions that usually attend it, must needs be prejudicial to verity (Passions Quotes)
He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations (Passions Quotes)
Neither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike (Passions Quotes)
Noble passions are like vices: The more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, mothers and gamblers are insatiable (Passions Quotes)
The blossoms of passions, gay luxuriant flowers, are brighter and fuller of fragrance; but they beguile us and lead us astray, and their odor is deadly (Passions Quotes)
Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation (Passions Quotes)
What is life? A gulf of troubled waters, where the soul, like a vexed bark, is tossed upon the waves of pain and pleasure by the wavering breath of passions (Passions Quotes)
Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an elect few (Passions Quotes)
Of all things known to mortals wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being common fuel to them all (Passions Quotes)