The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.
Mary Astell

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

The idea is that the state doesn't have rights to limit individuals' wants and passions. I disagree with that. I think we absolutely have rights because there are consequences to letting people live out whatever wants or passions they desire.
Rick Santorum

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
Bodhidharma

The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.
Samuel Richardson

The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.
Charles Horton Cooley

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.
Susan Sontag

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
Stendhal

The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.
William Osler

The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization.
Lytton Strachey

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
Soren Kierkegaard

The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare.
Jack Henry Abbott

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

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The passions are the same in every conflict, large or small.
Mason Cooley

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.
George Santayana

The passions of the young are vices in the old.
Joseph Joubert

The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone; therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care of.
Joseph Butler

The resultant tales from life are stirring reader interest, survivor passions and unease among Britons.
Francis X. Clines

The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!
Edmund Waller