I simple cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it read more

I simple cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.

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.]

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

And you, brave Cobham! to the latest breath
Shall feel your ruling passion strong in death.

And you, brave Cobham! to the latest breath
Shall feel your ruling passion strong in death.

Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the read more

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

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

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

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

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

For one heat, all know, doth drive out another,
One passion doth expel another still.

For one heat, all know, doth drive out another,
One passion doth expel another still.

What to ourselves in passion we propose,
The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.

What to ourselves in passion we propose,
The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.