An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Emotion is always the enemy of wise statesmanship.
I'm very English, and we don't talk about emotions publicly.
What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.
Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois concept. Feelings are overrated.
To become a stoic is to endorse the truthfulness of its world view and accept its prescription for how you ought to live, not just to like how it makes you feel.
All emotion is involuntary when genuine.
Greek tragedy was pre-Freudian, so every emotion has to be so raw; there are no psychological undertones.
Our emotions are often beautiful, but they can also be dangerous. They represent our spontaneity, and seem to speak to us of our freedom.
Everyone has emotions; you just learn to use then and be comfortable with them.
Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.