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«Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.»
«A man cannot govern a nation if he cannot govern a city; he cannot govern a city if he cannot govern a family; he cannot govern a family unless he can govern himself; and he cannot govern himself unless his passions are subject to reason»
Author: Hugo Grotius
| About:
Men
| Keywords:
city, family, family man, govern, passions, subject, subject to
«Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body»
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
| About:
Conscience,
Passion
| Keywords:
conscience, passions, The Body, The Passions, The Voice, voice of conscience
«Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.»
Author: Lao Tzu
(Philosopher)
| About:
Heart,
Love,
Mind,
Senses
| Keywords:
and the, attacks, Attack of, For, head, head up, heart, heart attack, heart attacks, passions, sensed, senses, sense an, sensing, simultaneously, strongest, the senses, under attack
«It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters»
«Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
anarchy, centuries, compare, inhibit, inhibited, inhibiting, inhibits, Laws, legalism, passions, strongest, The Anarchy, The Passions
«Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist bare necessity.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
bare, bared, barer, bares, barest, baring, baseless, feeble, feebler, feeblest, gainsay, gainsaying, humane, improper, incredibly, mad, necessity, passions, resist, sentiments, withstand, withstanding, withstood
«A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them»
Author: Carl Gustav Jung
(Founder, Psychologist)
| About:
Passion
| Keywords:
inferno, overcome, passed, passions
«. . . thinking is merely a relation of. . . . drives [desires, passions] to each other . . .»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
desires, drives, passions, relation, to each other
«I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
All American, Americans, appetites, passions, The Americans
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