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It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to. George Santayana

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Without passion

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark. Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Journal, 17 December 1856

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Principles

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed. Mark Twain

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