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From their experience or from the recorded experience of others , men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

Passion holds up the bottom of the universe and genius paints up its roof.

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.

Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth it's spark.

Life is action and passion; therefore it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Act nothing in furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after.

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

if this night is all we have, we'll let sunrise wait for us.

In the black of my midnight you're the star for me.