Violent Passions Quotes
8 quotes by 7 authors
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The necessity of a senate is not less indicated by the propensity of all single and numerous assemblies, to yield to the impulse of sudden…
— James Madison
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Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions. Trade loves moderation, delights in compromise, and is most careful to avoid anger. It is patient,…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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People who are born even-tempered, placid and untroubled - secure from violent passions or temptations to evil - those who have never needed to struggle…
— Eva Le Gallienne
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Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.
— Henry Home, Lord Kames
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The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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It is difficult to say which is the greatest evil--to have too violent passions, or to be wholly devoid of them. Controlled with firmness, guided…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions because it loves moderation, delights in compromise an is most careful to avoid anger.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Of all the violent passions the one that becomes a woman best is love.
— Francois La Rochefoucauld
Who Wrote These Violent Passions Quotes
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