Baron de Montesquieu Quotes About Passion

Quotes about: Passion

• There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Powerful, Passion, Law

• In vain do we seek tranquility in the desert; temptations are always with us; our passions, represented by the demons, never let us alone: those monsters created by the heart, those illusions produced by the mind, those vain specters that are our errors and our lies always appear before us to seduce us; they attack us even in our fasting or our mortifications, in other words, in our very strength.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Lying, Passion, Heart

• As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Passion, Men, Age

• Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Passion, Feels

• The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Passion, Machines, Ruins

• Brutes are deprived of the high advantages which we have; but they have some which we have not. They have not our hopes, but theyare without our fears; they are subject like us to death, but without knowing it; even most of them are more attentive than we to self-preservation, and do not make so bad a use of their passions.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Passion, Self, Knowing

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