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The Passions
«Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else»
Author: Alphonse Karr
| About:
Love,
Passion
| Keywords:
generous, includes, passions, Someone else, terrible, The Passions
«I understand now that 'special love' exists between two people when the passions lie beneath the surface.»
«Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.»
Author: Marguerite De Valois
| About:
Love,
Miracles
| Keywords:
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«Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
| About:
Passion
| Keywords:
Acts, passions, The Passions
«Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason /you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.»
«Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.»
«It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
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«Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| About:
Music,
Passion
| Keywords:
encouragement, legislator, liberal arts, Music of, The Passions
«Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of Heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory. The fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so holy.»