Passion Quotes

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.

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.