#Passions Quotes

“One may gain political and social independence, but if one is a slave to his passions and desires, one cannot feel the pure joy of real freedom”

“Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.”

“To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions.”

“Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.”

“A man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate.”

“As you advance in life, different passions can take the front seat, so for me, business is where my primary focus is right now.”

“The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions - all orderly arranged society lulls the passions to sleep; they always reawakened the sense of comparison, of contradiction, of delight in the new, the adventurous, the untried; they compelled men to set opinion against opinion, ideal plan against ideal plan.”

“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.”

“In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.”

“It is a mighty error to suppose that none but violent and strong passions, such as love and ambition, are able to vanquish the rest. Even idleness, as feeble and languishing as it is, sometimes reigns over them; it usurps the throne and sits paramount over all the designs and actions of our lives, and imperceptibly wastes and destroys all our passions and all our virtues.”

“Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.”

“In their early passions women are in love with the lover, later they are in love with love.”

“The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.”

“The passions of youth are not more dangerous to health than is the lukewarmness of old age.”

“The passions are the only orators which always persuade.”

“Passions often produce their contraries: avarice sometimes leads to prodigality, and prodigality to avarice; we are often obstinate through weakness and daring through timidity.”

“Women can less easily surmount their coquetry than their passions.”

“If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.”

“The passions often engender their contraries.”

“Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.”

“In the human heart one generation of passions follows another; from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next.”

“The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly.”

“Moderation cannot have the credit of combatiug and subduing ambition, they are never found together. Moderation is the languor and indolence of the soul, as ambition is its activity and ardor.”

“Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.”

“Without passions you have no experience whatever.”

“The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and prodigality avarice; a man's resolution is very often the effect of levity, and his boldness that of cowardice and fear.”

“All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.”

“All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.”

“It is a mistake to imagine, that the violent passions only, such as ambition and love, can triumph over the rest. Idleness, languid as it is, often masters them all; she influences all our designs and actions, and insensibly consumes and destroys both passions and virtues.”

“A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”

“A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. They then dwell in the house next door, and at any moment a flame may dart out and set fire to his own house. Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force.”

“Now, if the passions had no hold on us, a week and a hundred years would amount to the same.”