The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
If you want others to be happy practice compassion. If you want to be happy practice compassion.
Endurance is the crowning quality And patience all the passion of great hearts.
The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart given surnames and Christian names and sent to walk the earth.
Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.
Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others but only those who have greater designs.
Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent generous perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Great passions my dear don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
Man is only great when he acts from passion.
Great dancers are not great because of their technique they are great because of their passion.
Only passions great passions can elevate the soul to great things.
There never was any heart truly great and generous that was not also tender and compassionate.
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers always on trial for their political lives always required to court their restless constituents.