PASSION

IF WE RESIST OUR PASSIONS IT IS MORE FROM THEIR
WEAKNESS THAN FROM OUR STRENGHT.
What reason weaves, by passion is undone.
One passion expels another.
Where passion rules, how weak does reason prove ?
The natural man has only two primal passion to get and to beget.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
Chastise your passions, that they may not chastise you.
No one who is a lover of money, of pleasure or of glory, is likewise a lover of mankind Riches are not among the number of things that are good. It is not poverty that causes sorrow, but covetous desires. Deliver yourself from appetite, and you will be free. He who is discontented with things present and allotted, is unskilled in life………………………!