The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
Passion Quotes
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.
The passions rise higher at domestic than at imperial tragedies.
A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable, is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.
It is difficult to overcome one’s passions, and impossible to satisfy them.
They who allow their passions to confound the distinctions between right and wrong, are criminal. They may be convinced; but they have not come honestly by their conviction.
The will to overcome a passion is in the end merely the will of another or several other passions.
Never underestimate the power of passion.
It is the fate of almost every passion, when it has passed the bounds of which nature prescribes, to counteract its own purpose. Too much rage hinders the warrior from circumspection, too much eagerness of profit hurts the credit of the trader, too much ardour takes away from the lover that easiness of address with […]
The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.
