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
Horace Walpole 
Norman MacCaig 
Joseph Butler 
Marquis de Sade 
Marcel Proust 
Samuel Richardson 
Alexander Pope 
Nikolai Gogol 
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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
Georg C. Lichtenberg 
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That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.
George Berkeley
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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
Florence Nightingale
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.
Lord Byron
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Francois de La RochefoucauldFriedrich NietzscheMason CooleyOscar WildeJohann Wolfgang von GoetheBenjamin FranklinSamuel JohnsonLucius Annaeus SenecaThomas Jefferson VoltaireAmbrose BierceBenjamin DisraeliBertrand RussellGeorge SantayanaEric Hoffer
Alexander PopeAldous HuxleyHonore De BalzacLord ByronEdmund BurkeLao TzuSamuel RichardsonCarl SandburgGeorg C. LichtenbergEleanor RooseveltGene TierneyWilliam Butler Yeats EpictetusJohn DrydenSusan Sontag
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