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love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavali...more

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Do not make passion an argument for truth! - O you good-natured and even noble enthusiasts, I know you! You want to win your argument against us, but ...more

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None of the people have any real interest in a science, who only begin to be enthusiastic about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.

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The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their worth otherwise.

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The misunderstanding of passion and reason, as if the latter were an independent entity and not rather a system of relations between various passions ...more

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As yet hath his knowledge not learned to smile, and to be without jealously ; as yet hath his gushing passion not become calm in beauty.