Admittance Quote by Seneca the Younger

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

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

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

— William Blake

Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding…

— Elihu Root

The passions, therefore, not the reason, of the public would sit in judgment. But it is the reason, alone, of the public, that ought…

— James Madison

The notion that you can endanger your physical and mental health by letting strong passions go unsatisfied is a vicious falsehood.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

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

“Someday we will realize that man is not controlled by laws, but byb passions. it is the strongest of passions that led to mankind's…

— Anthony Rudel

But I think that sensitivity is also a good counsellor when it comes to enforcing one's interests.

— Johannes Rau

Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without…

— Aristotle

Has it not. . . invariably been found that momentary passions, and immediate interests, have a more active and imperious control over human conduct…

— Alexander Hamilton

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and…

— David Hume