Boredom Quote by Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly

Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The passions often engender their contraries.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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

— Andrew Michael Ramsay

Passions are generally roused from great conflict.

— Livy

Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.

— Mikhail Lermontov

All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

— Nicolas Chamfort

Passions are the gales of life.

— Alexander Pope

All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.

— Nicolas Chamfort

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