PASSION

[Passions] are evil if love is evil and good if it is good.

Augustine of Hippo

We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Georg Hegel

Rule your passions, or they will rule you.

Horace

The spiritual combat in which we kill our passions in order to put on the new man is the most difficult of all the arts.

Nilus

However vast a man’s spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion.

Blaise Pascal

When the passions become masters, they are vices.

Blaise Pascal

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

Blaise Pascal

It is more grievous to be a slave to one’s passions than to be ruled by a despot.

Pythagoras

A wise man will be master of his passions, a fool their slave.

Publius Syrus