A Quote by Michel de Montaigne

All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate.

Michel de Montaigne

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Moderate Passions Suffer Themselves

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Michel de Montaigne
French - Philosopher
February 28, 1533 - September 13, 1592

The use of knowledge in our sex (beside the amusement of solitude) is to moderate the passions and learn to be contented with a small expense, which are the certain effects of a studious life and, it may be, preferable even to that fame which men have engrossed to themselves and will not suffer us to share.

Mary Wortley Montagu

Whatever was given to me, I respected it, I valued it and I relished it and with me, the entire world relished it.

Rekha

Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out; political passions, never.

Alphonse de Lamartine

In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect - if you're a moderate on abortion, if you're a moderate on gun control, or if you're a moderate in your religious faith - it doesn't evolve into a crusade where you're either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us.

Jimmy Carter

God cannot suffer - at least not as we do. It has some roots in Greek philosophy: if God is a perfect being, suffering would reduce that perfection, so God cannot suffer. More thoughtful theologians take the phrase in the sense of one of the confessions of faith that talks of God as being "without parts or passions" - he is not physical as we are, and not subject to "passions" in the sense of uncontrollable emotions that can take charge of us at times. God is not "emotional," if that word is used as some kind of weakness.

Christopher J. H. Wright

Before an affliction is digested, consolation ever comes too soon; and after it is digested, it comes too late.

Laurence Sterne

Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones; just as the wind blows out candles, but kindles fires.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them, And the white skeletons of young men-I saw them; I saw the debris and debris of all the dead soldiers of the war; But I saw they were not as was thought; They themselves were fully at rest-they suffer'd not; The living remain'd and suffer'd-the mother suffer'd, And the wife and the child, and the musing comrade suffer'd, And the armies that remain'd suffer'd.

Walt Whitman

As the Republicans run to the crazy Tea Party right, they leave behind the huge mass of genuinely moderate and independent Americans that make up the majority of voters. The ones that used to consider themselves now-extinct moderate Republicans. They're up for grabs. And the Democrats have to grab them!

Jennifer Granholm

Tinys do not deserve safety. If they are to prove themselves, they must suffer and die or suffer and survive.

Francesca Lia Block

Ill-digested principles are, if anything, worse than ill-digested food, for the latter harms the body and there is cure for it, whereas the former ruins the soul and there is no cure for it.

Mahatma Gandhi

As a matter of fact the majority of the Muslims living in our society are moderate people. But don't make the mistake that even though there are moderate and radical Muslims that there is a moderate or a radical Islam.

Geert Wilders

How could people like these, without words to put to their emotions and passions, manage? They could, at best, only suffer dumbly. Their pains and humiliations would work themselves out in their characters alone: like evil spirits possessing a body, so that the body itself might appear innocent of what it did.