Great men Quote by Anthony Rudel

“If the men were without passions, it would be forgivable to see Machiavel try to give some to them; he would be the new…

— Frederick the Great

Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their own, infallible…

— Honore de Balzac

“It is of capital importance for us to discipline the heart,[FN#209] otherwise it will discipline us. Passions are like legs. They should be guided…

— Kaiten Nukariya

“it isn’t passions that make us weak, but rather uncontrollable passions.”

— Walter Jon Williams

When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“The philosophers say that the passions are too lively, too fiery; in truth they are weak and languid. All around one sees the mass…

— Charles Fourier

“As a rule, we must not be the slaves of passion; rather, we must be the possessors of great passions. Through passion commences power,…

— C. JoyBell C

The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Passions make men live, knowledge merely makes them last

— Chamfort

Our passions are the chief means of self-preservation; to try to destroy them is therefore as absurd as it is useless; this would be…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There are passions that it is not for man to choose.

— Nikolai Gogol