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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another |
| Friedrich Nietzsche |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| They ended as all great passions do end-----by a misunderstanding... |
| Honore de Balzac |
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| 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 |
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| To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude |
| Joseph Addison |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself. |
| Roland Barthes |
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| 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 |
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| Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion. |
| Ovid |
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