Passion Quotes

In bad or corrupted natures the body will often appear to rule over the soul, because they are in an evil and unnatural condition. At all events we may firstly observe in living creatures both a despotical and a constitutional... ...

.. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition.

Therefore the good man ought to be a lover of self, since he will then both benefit himself by acting nobly and aid his fellows; but the bad man ought not to be a lover of self, since he will... ...

They - Young People have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things - and that means having exalted notions. They... ...

A young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur in life, but its discussions start from these and are about these; and, further, since he tends to... ...

The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.

And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.