Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
Avarice misapprehends itself almost always. There is no passion which more often will miss its aim, nor upon which the present has so much influence to the prejudice of the future.
The pleasure of love is in the loving; and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.
It appears that nature has hid at the bottom of our hearts talents and abilities unknown to us. It is only the passions that have the power of bringing them to light, and sometimes give us views more true and more perfect than art could possibly do.
No matter how much care we put into hiding our passions under the appearances of devotion and honor, they can always be seen to peer out through these covers.
Spiritual health is no more stable than bodily; and though we may seem unaffected by the passions we are just as liable to be carried away by them as to fall ill when in good health.
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.
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.
In the human heart one generation of passions follows another; from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next.
Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly.
Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.
Women can less easily surmount their coquetry than their passions.
Men are often so foolish as to boast and value themselves upon their passions, even those that are most vicious. But envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that no one every ever had the confidence to own it.
The health of the soul is something we can be no more sure of than that of the body; and though a man may seem far from the passions, yet he is in as much danger of falling into them as one in a perfect state of health of having a fit of sickness.
All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.
The passions possess a certain injustice and self interest which makes it dangerous to follow them, and in reality we should distrust them even when they appear most trustworthy.
The reason why most women have so little sense of friendship is that this is but a cold and flat passion to those that have felt that of love.
Men never desire anything very eagerly which they desire only by the dictates of reason.
Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever
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