A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
Passion Quotes
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.
On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale.
That which you do not want to do is to fail in either clarity or in passion.
Passion often makes fools of the ablest, and lends ability to the most foolish.
And hence one master – passion in the breast, Like Aaron’s serpent, swallows up the rest.
Take mankind in general; they are vicious, their passions may be operated upon.
Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, just as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire.
