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It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters. – Aesop

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If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. – Benjamin Franklin

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

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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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Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love. – Georges Bataille

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