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“Search then the ruling passion; there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.”

Passion Known Fool Constant Consistent Priests Sincere Ruling Cunning Ruling Passion

Author:Alexander Pope

“Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.”

Men Sometimes Passion Fool Foolish Clever Clever Man Foolish Man Most Clever

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Passion very often makes the wisest men fools, and very often too inspires the greatest fools with wit.”

Men Passion Inspire Fool Wit Wisest Wisest Man

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“I have known exile and a wild passion Of longing changing to a cold ache. King, beggar and fool , I have been all by turns, Knowing the body's sweetness, the mind 's treason ; Taliesin still, I show you a new world , risen, Stubborn with beauty , out of the heart 's need .”

World Needs Mind Heart Has Beens Stills Shows Body Turns Passion Known Knowing Fool Cold Kings Longing New World Stubborn Sweetness Ache Exile Beggar Risen Treason Wild Passion

Author:R. S. Thomas

“The world is only as deep as we can see. This is why fools think themselves profound. This is why terror is the passion of revelation.”

Thinking World Passion Fool Profound Terror Revelations

Book:The Judging Eye: One (The Aspect-Emperor Trilogy)

Source: The Judging Eye: One (The Aspect-Emperor Trilogy)

“Speak not of guilt, speak not of responsibility. When the Regiment of the Senses parades by, with music, and with banners; when the senses shiver and shudder, it is only a fool and and an irreverent person that will keep his distance, who will not embrace the good cause, marching towards the conquest of pleasures and passions. All of morality's laws - poorly understood and applied - are nil and cannot stand even for a moment, when the Regiment of the Senses parades by, with music, and with banners.”

Persons Moments Law Passion Speak Causes Pleasure Responsibility Fool Morality Understood Embrace Distance Guilt Senses Conquest Parades Banner Shiver Good Causes Irreverent

Author:C.P. Cavafy

“The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas, as those of a fool are by his passions. The time of the one is long, because he does not know what to do with it; so is that of the other, because he distinguishes every moment of it with useful or amusing thoughts--or, in other words, because the one is always wishing it away, and the other always enjoying it.”

Knows Men Long Doe Ideas Moments Time Passion Wish Enjoy Hours Wise Fool Amusing

Book:The works of Joseph Addison: including the whole contents of Bp. Hurd's edition, with letters and other pieces not found in any previous collection; and Macaulay's essay on his life and works

Source: The works of Joseph Addison: including the whole contents of Bp. Hurd's edition, with letters and other pieces not found in any previous collection; and Macaulay's essay on his life and works

“Whatever poets may write, or fools believe, of rural innocence and truth, and of the perfidy of courts, this is most undoubtedly true,--that shepherds and ministers are both men; their natures and passions the same, the modes of them only different.”

Men Writing Believe May Different Passion Poet Fool Court Innocence Ministers Shepherds Perfidy

Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“Why ... do the myths of America the Hateful take such powerful hold? Because anti-Americanism provides a useful emotional function which goes beyond logic and reaches deep into the darker recesses of the European soul. In centuries past those on the Left who wished to personalise their hatred of capitalism, who sought to make it emotionally resonant by fastening an envious political passion on to a blameless scapegoat people, embraced anti-Semitism. It was the socialism of fools. Which is what anti-Americanism is now.”

“Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever”

Men Passion Fool Foolish Clever Foolish Man

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions.”

Passion Fool Foolish

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“My soul hates the fool whose only passion is to live by rule.”

Soul Hate Passion Fool My Soul Live By

Book:The Works of George Santayana: The sense of beauty. Poems. Lucifer. Overheard in Seville

Source: The Works of George Santayana: The sense of beauty. Poems. Lucifer. Overheard in Seville

“For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.”

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Author:Honore de Balzac

“Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.”

Men Giving Passion Fool Wisest Wisest Man

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld