Fire Quote by Roger L'Estrange

It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.

— Aesop

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power.

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

— Andrew Michael Ramsay

Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.

— Walter Raleigh

Passions are the gales of life.

— Alexander Pope

Passions are generally roused from great conflict.

— Livy

The passions often engender their contraries.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

— Denis Diderot

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,…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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