Passion Quotes

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.

Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual.

The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.

Young people are always in a state similar to being drunk.

The law is reason, free from passion.

The young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine.

Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.