Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.
In music the passions enjoy themselves.
Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age when the eager passions of youth are cooled and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows which are at morning and evening so large almost entirely disappear at midday.
The ignorant mind with its infinite afflictions passions and evils is rooted in the three poisons. Greed anger and delusion.
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.