When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting.
Self-mastery is a challenge for every individual. Only we can control our appetites and passions. Self-mastery cannot be bought by money or fame. It is the ultimate test of our character. It requires climbing out of the deep valleys of our lives and scaling our own Mount Everests.
The true God He has extension, and form, and dimensions. He occupies space; has a body, parts, and passions; can go from place to place. He can eat, drink, and talk
We often pride ourselves on even the most criminal passions, but envy is a timid and shamefaced passion we never dare to acknowledge.
If you know your characters well enough, you aren't trying to grasp for storylines. You're really thinking about their flaws and their passions and what they're chasing.
Passions are the speech of our bodies, they are our vitality speaking.
There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
In order to exert influence over people, there were other things that could be used besides love. Knowledge seemed to be an equally strong force, perhaps even stronger. Whoever possessed knowledge not only had power over the changeable passions of people, but also power over their thinking, over their minds, hearts and souls.
The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone; therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care of.
Strive with all your might to bring your interior activity into accord with God, and you will overcome exterior passions.
All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate.
The very beautiful rarely love at all; those precious images are placed above the reach of the passions: Time alone is permitted to efface them.
True passions do not deprive love.
To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions.
When you're passionate about God, you can trust your passions.
The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors.
We tend to think of memories as monuments we once forged and may find intact beneath the weedy growth of years. But, in a real sense, memories are tied to and describe the present. Formed in an idiosyncratic way when they happened, they're also true to the moment of recall, including how you feel, all you've experienced, and new values, passions, and vulnerability. One never steps into the same stream of consciousness twice.
Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.