“All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.”
“All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.”
“Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself”
“Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never”
“To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic”
“Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect”
“Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further”
“Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.”