Forget Quote by Denis Diderot

One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all…

— Denis Diderot

We relate all our afflictions more frequently than we do our pleasures.

— Fanny Burney

The passions should be purged; all may become innocent if they are well directed and moderated. Even hatred maybe a commendable feeling when it…

— Joseph Joubert

In order to preserve the dominion of our own passions, it behooves us to be constantly and strictly on our guard against the influence…

— John Quincy Adams

The passions often engender their contraries.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Human passions have mysterious ways, in children as well as grown-ups. Those affected by them can't explain them, and those who haven't known them…

— Michael Ende

Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason.

— Aristotle

A man who hates the passion cuts off their causes. But a man who remains among their causes experiences even against his will the…

— Marcus Eremita

The passions possess a certain injustice and self interest which makes it dangerous to follow them, and in reality we should distrust them even…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is no human being who having both passions and thoughts does not think in consequences of his passions--does not find images rising in…

— George Eliot

When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

— Christian Nestell Bovee