When the passions become masters, they are vices.
Passion Quotes
When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.
Tenderness is the repose of Passion.
Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
The passionate are like men standing on their heads; they see all things the wrong way.
Some of these philosophers tried to extinguish all of their passions, as did the Cynics and Stoics. That is evidently madness, for we cannot extinguish passion without destroying our whole body.
If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.
