Endanger Quote by Joseph B. Wirthlin

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

— Aristotle

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

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

Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.

— William Blake

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been…

— Seneca the Younger

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 often engender their contraries.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is a mighty error to suppose that none but violent and strong passions, such as love and ambition, are able to vanquish the…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The passions we cannot control are the ones that define us.

— Simon Van Booy

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after

— Alexander Pope

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

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?

— Zebulon Pike