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| We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy. |
| by Cyril Connolly |
| All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. |
| by Aristotle |
| Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness. |
| by Bhagavad Gita |
| Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged. |
| by Samuel Johnson |
| Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied. |
| by Niccolo Machiavelli |
| Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied. |
| by Niccolò Machiavelli |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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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