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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
Solitude
Joseph Addison

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The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.
Tragedies
Aristotle

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Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.
Chaos
Lord Byron

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All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
Passion
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

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The person who is master of their passions is reason's slave.
Reason
Cyril Connolly

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Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.
Passion
Denis Diderot

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Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions.
Greatness
Benjamin Disraeli

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We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.
Love
Du Coeur

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I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.
Nationalities and Nationalism
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.
Passion
Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
Passion
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.
Law and Lawyers
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
Pity
Oliver Goldsmith

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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.
Courage
Samuel Johnson

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
Youth
Joseph Joubert

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A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
Passion
Carl Jung

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If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.
Passion
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.
Speakers and Speaking
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
Passion
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
Passion
Alphonse De Lamartine

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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
Passion
Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.
Passion
George Meredith

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He who reins within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king
Self-control
John Milton

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The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.
Instinct
Sir William Osler

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Passions are the gales of life.
Passion
Alexander Pope

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun