Passions Quotes
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We must recognize the eloquence of our passions and refuse to be taken in. Instead of saying, 'That false friend always did despise me,' say: 'In my present state of agitation, I can't see clearly, I can't judge clearly; I am only a tragic actor who is declaiming for his own ears.' Then you will see the lights in the theater go out for lack of an audience, and the brilliant sets will be nothing more than painted cardboard.
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A man is one whose body has been trained to be the ready servant of his mind; whose passions are trained to be the servants of his will; who enjoys the beautiful, loves truth, hates wrong, loves to do good, and respects others as himself.
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I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature.
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Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
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Of all the passions, fear weakens judgment most.
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Love based upon money and vanity forms the most stubborn of passions.
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To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude.
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There is no liberty to men whose passions are stronger than their religious feelings; there is no liberty to men in whom ignorance predominates over knowledge; there is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured. Unhappy they who have never been taught the art to govern them!
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She loved to return to the world of the book, a world in which people were willing to let go of everything in order to follow their passions.
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Human character is smaller now, people don't have durable passions; they've replaced passions with excitement.
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All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.
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Good slaves are free, but bad free men are slaves of many passions.
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To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions.
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Who can deny that much that passes for science and art today destroys the soul instead of uplifting it and instead of evoking the best in us, panders to our basest passions?
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Men wholly bent on wordly treasures were the dupes of their own passions, rather than deceived by the writings or pretenses of those who claimed to be Alchemists.
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There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation.
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It is only with the passions of others that we are ever really familiar, and what we come to discover about our own can only be learned from them.
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Your happiness is at the intersection of your passions and learning from great people.
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The best definition I have ever heard of a vocation is that it's the place where your great joy meets the world's great need. We need all of you to find your vocation. To develop your joys, your passions, and to match them to the world's great needs.
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Strive with all your might to bring your interior activity into accord with God, and you will overcome exterior passions.
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He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.
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Find out what your passions are and gauge your limit. Because success requires hard work and perseverance and sadly, not everyone has the two.
