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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless
Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers
Passions are the only orators to always convinces us
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever
In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones
All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood
If we resist our passions it is more from their weakness than from our strength
He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
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On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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