He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
Passion Quotes
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
The man who is master of his passions is reason’s slave.
It is easy to fly into a passion – anybody can do that – but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time with the right object and in the right way – that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it.
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man’s suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!
What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.
