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Absence lessens the minor passions and increases the great ones, as the wind douses a candle and kindles a fire. – La RochefoucauldRate it:
Control thy passions, lest they take vengeance on thee. – EpictetusRate it:
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future. – StendhalRate it:
It is without doubt, nowadays, that many students lack the ability to know or find their true passions in life; after all the criticism they went through. Whether it is at school, college, university or any learning environment. – Mwanandeke KindemboRate it:
Military training, throughout history, has required discipline. Socrates believed that self-control could become the very foundation of moral wisdom if only we could learn how to apply it to overcoming violent passions, such as anger and hatred. Stoicism appeals to military men and women precisely because it was inspired by ancient military values. It’s especially relevant today because of its potential to reach many individuals who do not otherwise seek therapy or read self-help literature. It also holds out the promise of a more lasting, perhaps even lifelong, personal transformation. – Mick MulroyRate it:
Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics. There must be a positive passion for the public good, the public interest, honor, power and glory, established in the minds of the people, or there can be no republican government, nor any real liberty: and this public passion must be superior to all private passions – John AdamsRate it:
Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals. – Johann Wolfgang von GoetheRate it:
The enemies which rise within the body, hard to be overcome?thy evil passions?should manfully be fought: he who conquers these is equal to the conquerors of worlds. – BharaviRate it:
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift. – SenecaRate it:
When a person identifies himself with a group his critical faculties are diminished and his passions enhanced by a kind of emotive resonance. The individual is not a killer, the group is, and by identifying with it, the individual becomes one. This is the infernal dialect reflected in man's history. – Arthur KoestlerRate it:
All the passions make us commit faults love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones. – La RochefoucauldRate it:
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other. – John AdamsRate it:
How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks. – Dorothy Sayers, Gaudy NightRate it:
Facts are stubborn things and what ever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they can not alter the state of facts, and evidence. – John AdamsRate it:
In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But the works of malice and injustice are quite in another style. They are finished with a bold, masterly hand; touched as they are with the spirit of those vehement passions that call forth all our energies, whenever we oppress and persecute. – Edmund BurkeRate it:
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted. – SenecaRate it:
When your passions cannot be controlled by your conscience, then you become enslaved; you will lead a disruptive existence unable to traverse life’s daily decisions. – RJ Intindola – (Gandolfo)Rate it:
Only the disciplined ones in life are free. If you are undisciplined, you are a slave to your moods and your passions.” – Eliud KipchogeRate it:
He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires and fears is more than a King. – John MiltonRate it:
If we resist our passions, it is more from their weakness than from our strength. – La RochefoucauldRate it:
It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters. – AesopRate it:
Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in which I have lived have forced me to commit myself on the boisterous ocean of political passions. – Thomas JeffersonRate it:
Reason is captive in the hands of the passions, as a weak man in the hands of an artful woman. – Saadi ShiraziRate it:
The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions. – AristotleRate it:

Absence lessens the minor passions and increases the great ones, as the wind douses a candle and kindles a fire.

– La RochefoucauldRate it:

Control thy passions, lest they take vengeance on thee.

– EpictetusRate it:

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

– StendhalRate it:

It is without doubt, nowadays, that many students lack the ability to know or find their true passions in life; after all the criticism they went through. Whether it is at school, college, university or any learning environment.

– Mwanandeke KindemboRate it:

Military training, throughout history, has required discipline. Socrates believed that self-control could become the very foundation of moral wisdom if only we could learn how to apply it to overcoming violent passions, such as anger and hatred. Stoicism appeals to military men and women precisely because it was inspired by ancient military values. It’s especially relevant today because of its potential to reach many individuals who do not otherwise seek therapy or read self-help literature. It also holds out the promise of a more lasting, perhaps even lifelong, personal transformation.

– Mick MulroyRate it:

Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics. There must be a positive passion for the public good, the public interest, honor, power and glory, established in the minds of the people, or there can be no republican government, nor any real liberty: and this public passion must be superior to all private passions

– John AdamsRate it:

Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.

– Johann Wolfgang von GoetheRate it:

The enemies which rise within the body, hard to be overcome?thy evil passions?should manfully be fought: he who conquers these is equal to the conquerors of worlds.

– BharaviRate it:

We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

– SenecaRate it:

When a person identifies himself with a group his critical faculties are diminished and his passions enhanced by a kind of emotive resonance. The individual is not a killer, the group is, and by identifying with it, the individual becomes one. This is the infernal dialect reflected in man's history.

– Arthur KoestlerRate it:

All the passions make us commit faults love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

– La RochefoucauldRate it:

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.

– John AdamsRate it:

How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.

– Dorothy Sayers, Gaudy NightRate it:

Facts are stubborn things and what ever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they can not alter the state of facts, and evidence.

– John AdamsRate it:

In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But the works of malice and injustice are quite in another style. They are finished with a bold, masterly hand; touched as they are with the spirit of those vehement passions that call forth all our energies, whenever we oppress and persecute.

– Edmund BurkeRate it:

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

– SenecaRate it:

When your passions cannot be controlled by your conscience, then you become enslaved; you will lead a disruptive existence unable to traverse life’s daily decisions.

– RJ Intindola – (Gandolfo)Rate it:

Only the disciplined ones in life are free. If you are undisciplined, you are a slave to your moods and your passions.”

– Eliud KipchogeRate it:

He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires and fears is more than a King.

– John MiltonRate it:

If we resist our passions, it is more from their weakness than from our strength.

– La RochefoucauldRate it:

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

– AesopRate it:

Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in which I have lived have forced me to commit myself on the boisterous ocean of political passions.

– Thomas JeffersonRate it:

Reason is captive in the hands of the passions, as a weak man in the hands of an artful woman.

– Saadi ShiraziRate it:

The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.

– AristotleRate it:

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