| |  | | | | | | | | | | | The principal effect of the passions is that they incite and persuade the mind to will the events for which they prepared the body. | | Rene Descartes | | | The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it. | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | | | The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another | | Friedrich Nietzsche | | | 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 | | Marcel Proust | | | There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination. | | Edmund Burke | | | They ended as all great passions do end-----by a misunderstanding... | | Honore de Balzac | | | Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. | | Bertrand Russell | | | To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude | | Joseph Addison | | | To be worthy of the name, he must be free of two things; the force of tradition and tyranny of his own passions. | | Bertrand Russell | | | We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered to-day? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift. | | Seneca | | | What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself. | | Roland Barthes | | | 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. | | Benjamin Franklin | | | Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion. | | Ovid | | | | | | | | | |
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