Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Midlife is the perfect time to embrace your inner passions and let it drive you to do your own thing.” — Robi Ludwig Copy Share Image
In men, we various ruling passions find; In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“Soon enough, we are all going to leave this earth for good. The thought of this alone should make us love deeply,… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“An error of the passions is not the flowering of a great love, and merely the beauty of the human form is… — Rachilde Copy Share Image
“All passions make us commit faults, but love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.” — La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to… — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
In tragic life, God wot, No villain need be! Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within. — George Meredith Copy Share Image
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Conflicts are never caused in any simple way by identity, culture or economics. Where resources are scarce, or there are strong historical… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
“I found you in the whispers of the shadow... luring me out into the light. Swallowed by the song and richness of… — Jennifer Hillman Copy Share Image
The passions should be purged; all may become innocent if they are well directed and moderated. Even hatred maybe a commendable feeling… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Just because you're passionately interested in something doesn't mean it has to be your career. You might have to look for more… — Larry Smith Copy Share Image
“He closed the door behind us, and led me through to the back of the shop. ‘If you don’t mind, you can… — Fiona Thrust Copy Share Image
I was a weird teenager. My mother was actually worried because I didn't have any interest in dating in my teenage years.… — Kiesza Copy Share Image
I believe - that everyone has the infinite capacity to be great at something, to be king in an area of choice… — Bernard Kelvin Clive Copy Share Image
“La diferencia estriba quizá en que el hombre de fuertes pasiones las vive, mientras que el de débiles pasiones es vivido por… — Madariaga Copy Share Image
In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being too much in the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“I have always preferred the folly of the passions to the wisdom of indifference. But just because my own passions are not… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“If the men were without passions, it would be forgivable to see Machiavel try to give some to them; he would be… — Frederick the Great Copy Share Image
“It takes courage and strength to be sensitive to things and even more strength and courage to own up to it or… — Bruce Crown Copy Share Image
An immoderate fondness for dress, for pleasure, and for sway, are the passions of savages; the passions that occupy those uncivilized beings… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
As countless as grains of sand by the sea are human passions, and they all differ; all of them, vile or lofty,… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
“Baseball isn't just a game. It's the smell of popcorn drifting in the air, the sight of bugs buzzing near the stadium… — Katie McGarry Copy Share Image
“By means of poetry all this suffering and effort could be transformed into dream; no matter how much of the ephemeral existed,… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
“if dreams may be called passions. I see no reason not to call them passions” — Caitlín R. Kiernan Copy Share Image
No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests. — Sallust Copy Share Image
“Nero's passions were so numerous it was impossible to keep track of them all.” — L.J. Trafford Copy Share Image