“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire. ”
“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire. ”
“If we resist our passions it is more from their weakness than from our strength”
“Our headstrong passions shut the door of our souls against God.”
“An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex”
“Passion very often makes the wisest men fools, and very often too inspires the greatest fools with wit”
“All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.”
“Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring”