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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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish. – Jean de la Fontaine

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