Impossible Quote by Voltaire

Our passions are the winds that propel our vessel. Our reason is the pilot that steers her. Without winds the vessel would not move…

— Proverb

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 often engender their contraries.

— 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 merely ideas in their initial stage. They are the property of youth, and anyone who expects to feel their thrill throughout his…

— Lermontov, Mikhail

Passions are the gales of life.

— Alexander Pope

Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.

— Mikhail Lermontov

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power.

— 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