Passions Site

Famous quotes containing the words passions and/or site:

“Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)

“That is a pathetic inquiry among travelers and geographers after the site of ancient Troy. It is not near where they think it is. When a thing is decayed and gone, how indistinct must be the place it occupied!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)