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Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?

— Zebulon Pike

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

— Thomas Aquinas

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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.

— John Quincy Adams

The notion that you can endanger your physical and mental health by letting strong passions go unsatisfied is a vicious falsehood.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.

— Samuel Richardson

Passions are the gales of life.

— Alexander Pope

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.

— Walter Pater

Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

— Denis Diderot

So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.

— Edward Dahlberg

✗Opposing Perspectives

To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!

— Denis Diderot