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Cyril Connolly:We must select the illusion which


We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.
by Cyril Connolly


Aristotle:All human actions have one or more of


All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
by Aristotle


Bhagavad Gita:Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion


Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
by Bhagavad Gita


Samuel Johnson:Revenge is an act of passion;


Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
by Samuel Johnson


Niccolo Machiavelli:Ambition is so powerful a


Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
by Niccolo Machiavelli


Niccolò Machiavelli:Ambition is so powerful a


Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
by Niccolò Machiavelli


Samuel T. Coleridge:Sympathy constitutes


Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
by Samuel T. Coleridge


Mark Twain:The holy passion of Friendship is of


The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
by Mark Twain


David Hume:Avarice, the spur of industry, is so


Avarice, the spur of industry, is so obstinate a passion, and works its way through so many real dangers and difficulties, that it is not likely to be scared by an imaginary danger, which is so small that it scarcely admits of calculation.
by David Hume


Edmund Burke:The person who grieves suffers his


The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
by Edmund Burke


Samuel Johnson:Avarice is generally the last


Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it.
by Samuel Johnson


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