Reason is no match for passion.

He no longer listens to voices of reason. Those who tell him what he wants to hear are the only ones he believes.

For the last time in his life he allowed passion to usurp cunning and reason,

There is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter.

Man is not a rational animal. He is only truly good or great when he acts from passion.

What man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.

It is passion that makes man live; wisdom makes one only last.

My sole possession is my passion, for no one can rob me of it. More fiery than love, it does not depend on another to blaze.

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

The man who looks only outside and quails before the big battalions has no resource with which to combat the evidence of his senses and his reason.