#passions

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. ↗

— John Adams

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Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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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! ↗

— Denis Diderot

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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. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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The passions of the young are vices in the old. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

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The passions are the same in every conflict, large or small. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others. ↗

— Lord Byron

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All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

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All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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