Top Passions Quotes
If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The passions are the same in every conflict, large or small.
Mason Cooley
What passions cannot music raise or quell?
John Dryden
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
Honore De Balzac
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If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld 
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The passions are the same in every conflict, large or small.
Mason Cooley
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
Honore De Balzac
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Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.
Laurence Sterne
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Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.
Denis Diderot
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The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.
Samuel Richardson
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Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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