Examine from time to time what are the dominant passions of your soul, and having ascertained this, mold your life, so that in thought, word, and deed you may as far as possible counteract them.
We go where our deepest desires take us.
It appears that nature has hid at the bottom of our hearts talents and abilities unknown to us. It is only the passions that have the power of bringing them to light, and sometimes give us views more true and more perfect than art could possibly do.
These passions of soul, these conflicts so fierce, will cease, and be repressed by the casting of a little dust.
No matter how much care we put into hiding our passions under the appearances of devotion and honor, they can always be seen to peer out through these covers.
What matters is real love for things of the world outside us and for the deep secrets within us.
You implanted your highest goal into the heart of those passions: then they became your virtues and joys.
As man's love or hatred, so he. Love and hatred exist only personified.
