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“It is justly considered as the greatest excellency of art to imitate nature; but it is necessary to distinguish those parts of nature which are most proper for imitation: greater care is still required in representing life, which is so often discoloured by passion or deformed by wickedness. If the world be promiscuously described, I cannot see of what use it can be to read the account; or why it may not be as safe to turn the eye immediately upon mankind, as upon a mirror which shows all that presents itself without discrimination.”

Ifs World Writing May Art Stills Use Shows Eye Care Turns Passion Greater Mankind Safe Accounts Mirrors Discrimination Imitation Wickedness Representing

Book:Essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler

Source: Essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler

“The prodigality of millionaires is comparable only to their greed of gain. Let some whim or passion seize them and money is of no account. In fact these Croesuses find whims and passions harder to come by than gold.”

Facts Passion Gains Gold Accounts Harder Greed Millionaire Whim Extravagance

Author:Honore de Balzac

“There is no passion that so much transports men from their right judgments as anger. No one would demur upon punishing a judge with death who should condemn a criminal upon the account of his own choler; why then should fathers and pedants be any more allowed to whip and chastise children in their anger? It is then no longer correction bat revenge. Chastisement is instead of physic to children; and should we suffer a physician who should be animated against and enraged at his patient?”

Men Should Children Suffering Passion Father Judging Judgment Accounts Anger Patient Revenge Criminals Physicians Bats Animated Whips Transport Corrections Chastisement Pedants

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“A passion is a contranatural movement of the soul or an irrational love, or an blindfold hatred toward any material thing, or because of it: for example, for food, or for women, or for riches, or for worldly glory, or any other sensible thing; or for the sake of such things, as in a senseless hatred for someone on account of the things mentioned above.”

Inspirational Soul Christian Passion Religious Example Movement Materials Glory Hatred Accounts Sake Riches Orthodox Sensible Irrational Worldly Material Things Blindfolds

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“Accounts are not quite settled between us," said she, with a passion that equaled my own. "I can love, and I can hate. You had your choice. You chose to spurn the first; now you must test the other.”

Firsts Said I Can Hate Choices Passion My Own Tests Accounts Hate You

Book:Horror of the Heights: And Other Tales of Suspense

Source: Horror of the Heights: And Other Tales of Suspense

“We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?”

Inspirational Should Motivational Today Night Passion Virtue Accounts Vices Temptation Every Night Know Yourself Infirmity

Author:Seneca the Elder

“We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.”

Ifs Should Character Today Night Passion Virtue Accounts Vices Temptation Every Night Know Yourself Infirmity

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in which I have lived, have forced me to take a part in resisting them, and to commit myself on the boisterous ocean of political passions.”

Science Political Passion Ocean Commitment Accounts Delight Pursuit Supreme Commit Resisting Tranquil Rendering Boisterous

Book:Jefferson: Political Writings

Source: Jefferson: Political Writings