Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
The notion that you can endanger your physical and mental health by letting strong passions go unsatisfied is a vicious falsehood.
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?
Virtue is insufficient temptation.
If we say that anyone who 'moralizes' must be perfect morally then we are in effect saying no one can moralize.
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
I've always considered myself lucky that I do not have many passions. There's only one pursuit that I have ever truly loved, and that pursuit is writing. This means, conveniently enough, that I never had to search for my destiny; I only had to obey it.
Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.
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