Passions

We must control our passions.

There are five ways to emancipate themselves from the bond of worldly passions.

There is, perhaps, not one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as vanity.

Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age.

People have worldly passions which lead them into delusions and sufferings.

He subdued his passions.

"Talking about 108, that's the number of worldly passions." "What worldly passions have you got then?" "I could say, but it'll get censored out."

I have been more than once intoxicated, my passions have always bordered on extravagance: I am not ashamed to confess it; for I have learned, by my own experience, that all extraordinary men, who have accomplished great and astonishing actions, have ever been decried by the world as drunken or insane.

Few historical debates have inflamed passions as much as the debate concerning Slavisation of Greece between the 7th and 9th centuries.

The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.