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Our true passions are selfish.


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ALEXANDRE DUMAS I've read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place.
FRANCOISE SAGAN We are minor in everything but our passions.
ELIZABETH BOWEN We are minor in everything but our passions
ELIZABETH BOWEN The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.
ARISTOTLE We are monsters with good intentions, our instincts drive us but our passions devour us
E.C. LEMUS I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of kee...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Feel your emotions,
Live true your passions,
Keep still your mind.
GEOFFREY M. GLUCKMAN All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate
CHAMFORT We must not let our passions destroy our dreams.
THOMAS S. MONSON Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.
WILLIAM BLAKE Animals are selfish, humans are selfless.
EPHDAN It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.
AESOP It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.
AESOP It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters
AESOP Passions are the gales of life.
ALEXANDER POPE These conquerors of the world are slaves to their passions, and someday their passions will bring th...
FRANCINE RIVERS Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our ...
JOHN ADAMS Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our ...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
I ARE It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.
EDMUND BURKE The only true retirement is that of the heart; the only true leisure is the repose of the passions. ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back...
ADRIAN GRENIER Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our ...
JOHN ADAMS In order to preserve the dominion of our own passions, it behooves us to be constantly and strictly ...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS The universality of mankind, our thoughts, our motivations for a better life, a better world, our va...
LLOYD HOBBARD-MITCHELL Vices are often habits rather than passions
ANTOINE RIVAROL Vices are often habits rather than passions.
ANTOINE RIVAROL Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the ...
ALEXANDER POPE Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us th...
JONATHAN SWIFT Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us th...
JONATHAN SWIFT If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD If we resist our passions it is more from their weakness than from our strength.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Life's irony; Loving someone in order to begeth marriage from the person is never true love,but a se...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) When the passions become masters, they are vices
BLAISE PASCAL Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passi...
GEORGE A. SMITH We express true love in obedience to God and service to others- not reckless or selfish behavior- an...
JOSHUA HARRIS It gets pretty selfish out there ... That's our goal every game.
BRAD BUCKMAN The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.
ANTOINE RIVAROL Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The passions are the only orators that always persuade.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are...
ALEXANDER HERZEN Our passions are the winds that propel our vessel. Our reason is the pilot that steers her. Without ...
PROVERB Most people get selfish, when others are inconsiderate.
VARUN AHUJA Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our...
RICHARD DAWKINS Our first intuitions are the true ones.
EMILE M. CIORAN our worst fears are coming true twice.
JULIE WILSON Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited...
JOSEPH BUTLER Your passions are a bit like your fingerprints: Everybody has them; everybody's are different. O...
NICK WOODMAN Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH The passions of the young are vices in the old.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.
NIKOLAI GOGOL When people are vulnerable to control, they feel that they are selfish for deciding what to do with ...
HENRY CLOUD Our attitude towards life are true reflections of our parental values .
PAUL E. EHIMEN When our minds are at rest, our true selves can soar.
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN Long ago we conquered our passions looking at ourselves in the mirror of eternity.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC If ever a generation was bequeathed the knowledge of God, we were. Yet we are throwing away this glo...
BILLY GRAHAM Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no pas...
WILLIAM BLAKE Our myths, our legends, aren't necessarily true, but they are truly necessary.
JO WALTON Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV A man's weakest spots are almost always closest to his passions.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.
LEIGH HUNT Excuses are lies camoflaged to be seen as selfish reasons.
JAIME CONTRERAS Sometimes we represent our weakness as if it were bad. We don’t think it’s okay to be weak…We ...
HENRY CLOUD Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.
DENIS DIDEROT Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
DENIS DIDEROT All sensations are true; pleasure is our natural goal.
EPICURUS Our worst assumptions are being borne true in Kosovo.
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STENDHAL The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
STENDHAL God's only excuse is that he does not exist.
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STENDHAL Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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STENDHAL Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and ho...
STENDHAL All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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STENDHAL Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
STENDHAL What is really beautiful must always be true.
STENDHAL One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
STENDHAL People happy in love have an air of intensity.
STENDHAL The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
STENDHAL A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
STENDHAL To describe happiness is to diminish it.
STENDHAL Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
STENDHAL The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
STENDHAL Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
STENDHAL Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
STENDHAL Only great minds can afford a simple style.
STENDHAL Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
STENDHAL The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
STENDHAL She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
STENDHAL If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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