| Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887. | | | | Passions |
| | Give me that man that is not passion’s slave,
And I will wear him in my heart’s core. Shakespeare. | 1 |
| Govern your passions, otherwise they will govern you. Horace. | 2 |
| He alone is happy who commands his passions. Horace. | 3 |
| He that overcomes his passions, overcomes his greatest enemies. | 4 |
| He whom passion rules is bent to meet his death. Plautus. | 5 |
| He that shows a passion tells his enemy where he may hit him. | 6 |
Hence one master-passion in the breast,
Like Aaron’s serpent swallows up the rest. Pope. | 7 |
| No man can guess in cold blood what he may do in a passion. | 8 |
| Nothing is well said or done in a passion. | 9 |
Passions are winds to urge us o’er the wave,
Reason the rudder to direct or save. | 10 |
| Regulate thy own passions and bear those of others. | 11 |
| The end of passion is the beginning of repentance. | 12 |
| The passions are like fire and water, good servants but bad masters. | 13 |
| The ruling passion strong in death. | 14 |
The ruling passion, be it what it will,
The ruling passion conquers reason still. Pope. | 15 |
| We ought to distrust our passions even when they seem most reasonable. | 16 |
| Where passion is high, there reason is low. | 17 | | |
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