Demon Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.

— Ben Jonson

The passions are the gales of life; and it is religion only that can prevent them from rising into a tempest.

— Isaac Watts

The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible…

— Voltaire

The passions often engender their contraries.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Passions are generally roused from great conflict.

— Livy

Passions are like storms which, full of present mischief, serve to purify the atmosphere.

— Andrew Michael Ramsay

All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Passions are the speech of our bodies, they are our vitality speaking.

— Martha Roth

Passions often produce their contraries: avarice sometimes leads to prodigality, and prodigality to avarice; we are often obstinate through weakness and daring through timidity.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

The passions do not die out; they burn out.

— Ninon de L'Enclos