Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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.
The simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without.
Some men are so full of themselves that when they fall in love, they amuse themselves rather with their own passion than with theperson they love.
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.
Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.
If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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.
The passions often engender their contraries.
When the soul is ruffled by the remains of one passion, it is more disposed to entertain a new one than when it is entirely curedand at rest from all.
The same strength of character which helps a man resist love, helps to make it more violent and lasting too. People of unsettled minds are always driven about with passions, but never absolutely filled with any.
People are often vain of their passions, even of the worst, but envy is a passion so timid and shame-faced that no one ever dare avow her.
In the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another.
However we may conceal our passions under the veil ... there is always some place where they peep out.
Indolence, languid as it is, often masters both passions and virtues.
A man often thinks he rules himself, when all the while he is ruled and managed; and while his understanding directs one design, his affections imperceptibly draw him into another.
Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones; just as the wind blows out candles, but kindles fires.
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