Famous Proverbs
8 Proverbs about Passions
1. Govern your passions, or they will govern you.
2. Lust of power is the strongest of all passions.
3. The most useful holy war is the one fought against your own passions.
4. Our passions are the winds that propel our vessel. Our reason is the pilot that steers her. Without winds the vessel would not move and without a pilot she would be lost.
5. The passions are like fire and water: good servants but bad masters.
6. Absence cools moderate passions but inflames violent ones.
7. He who overcomes his passions overcomes his greatest enemies.
8. Master your passions or your passions will master you.
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