Passions Quotes

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Great, Wind, Fans

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
John Adams

May, Cannot, Whatever

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

Wise, Powerful, Rich

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Life, Age, Morning

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde

Someone, Thoughts, Else

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.
Thomas Jefferson

Children, Between, Learn

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
Lao Tzu

Love, Heart, Head

In music the passions enjoy themselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Music, Enjoy, Themselves

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

Life, Love, Knowledge

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.
Bill Cosby

Music, Time, Nothing

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We are minor in everything but our passions.
Elizabeth Bowen

Everything, Minor

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Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.
Denis Diderot

Great, Soul, Elevate

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.
Voltaire

Trying, Play, Anyone

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
Carl Jung

Through, Overcome, Passed

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
Bodhidharma

Anger, Mind, Greed

Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it's realistic or not.
Deepak Chopra

Yourself, Ask, Realistic

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Highest, Virtues, Vices

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
Alexander Hamilton

Government, Justice, Why

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
Carl Sandburg

Anger, Nothing, Against

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Today, Night, Themselves

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
Alexander Hamilton

Men, Once, Moderation

Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.
Ambrose Bierce

Mind, Woman, Soul

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
Aldous Huxley

Men, History, Experience

As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.
Lord Byron

Nature, Long, Feeling

Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
Marquis de Sade

Greatest, Country, Dangerous

I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions.
Elizabeth Taylor

Ruled, Admitted

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

Men, Feelings, Act

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.
Epictetus

Control, Thy, Lest

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love, Makes, Ridiculous

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
Soren Kierkegaard

Life, Great, Nothing

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