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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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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