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If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical read more
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er;
So calm are we when passions are no more!
The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er;
So calm are we when passions are no more!
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his read more
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.
They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.
Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.
Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.
O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth!
Then with passion would I shake the world,
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O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth!
Then with passion would I shake the world,
And rouse from sleep that fell anatomy
Which cannot hear a lady's feeble voice,
Which scorns a modern invocation.
All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat
and cold of the blood.
[Fr., Toutes read more
All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat
and cold of the blood.
[Fr., Toutes les passions ne sout autre chose que les divers
degres de la chaleur et de la froideur du sang.]
Fountain-heads and pathless groves,
Places which pale passion loves!
Fountain-heads and pathless groves,
Places which pale passion loves!
