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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerou

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

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In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion. – Garrison Keillor

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The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another. – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

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Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark. – Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Journal, 17 December 1856

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