In order to preserve the dominion of our own passions, it behooves us to be constantly and strictly on our guard against the influence and infection of the passions of others.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Both our senses and our passions are a supply to the imperfection of our nature; thus they show that we are such sort of creatures as to stand in need of those helps which higher orders of creatures do not.
We all have those things that even in the midst of stress and disarray, they energize us and give us renewed strength and purpose. These are our passions.
Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.
Our true passions are selfish.
If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude.
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.
Human passions, like the forces of nature, are eternal; it is not a matter of denying their existence, but of assessing them and understanding them. Like the forces of nature, they can be subjected to man's deliberate act of will and be made to work in harmony with reason.