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«Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else»
Author: Alphonse Karr
| About:
Love,
Passion
| Keywords:
generous, includes, passions, Someone else, terrible, The Passions
«Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.»
Author: Marguerite De Valois
| About:
Love,
Miracles
| Keywords:
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«Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
| About:
Passion
| Keywords:
Acts, passions, The Passions
«Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Ideas,
Individuality,
Passion
| Keywords:
else, lives, mimicry, opinions, Other People, passions, quotation, Someone else, their, thoughts
«Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.»
Author: Bill Cosby
(Actor, Comedian, Producer)
| About:
Consequences,
Generations,
Music
| Keywords:
clothes, developed, eight, evening clothes, generations, nine, passions, procrastination, separates, Weird
«Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
dependence, diversion, diversions, emptiness, helplessness, inadequacies, inadequacy, intolerable, loneliness, nullity, occupation, passions
«Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.»
Author: Buddha
| Keywords:
intense, In Training, lust, lusted, lusting, lust after, passions, train, worldly
«Our passions are the winds that propel our vessel. Our reason is the pilot that steers her. Without winds the vessel would not move and without a pilot she would be lost.»
«Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of Heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory. The fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so holy.»