The notion that you can endanger your physical and mental health by letting strong passions go unsatisfied is a vicious falsehood.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
You can have the most wonderful motives for what you do, but if what you do harms other people, you're fooling yourself.
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.
All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.
Just when we most need to be clearheaded, in order to face the hard facts before us, there is all too frequently a very real inclination to give way to dangerous tendencies merely as an escape from realities.
You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.
Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?