#passion

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#only #passion

Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s. ↗

— William Blake

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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp. ↗

— John Donne

#grasp #man #most #passionate #within

I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#cause #devoted #equality #family #human

Probably my worst quality is that I get very passionate about what I think is right. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#get #i #i think #passionate #probably

I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#develop #developed #i #middle #middle ages

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy. ↗

— Giovanni Boccaccio

#human #unhappy

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee. ↗

— Epictetus

#lest #passions #take #thee #thy

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion. ↗

— Nadia Boulanger

#conditions #essential #everything #love #must

It is hard to know how many people do, but given that the people are so docile towards the rulers, nowadays, very few Americans show the passion for freedom that our forefathers had. ↗

— James Bovard

#few #forefathers #freedom #given #had