They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that

They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch. – Marquis De Sade

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For one heat, all know, doth drive out another,
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Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle. – Thomas Adams

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But this had been a sin of passion, not of principle, nor even purpose. – Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

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