Emotion
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3.The control and cure of the passions
3a.Stoic mastery and freedom from passion
See also: Mind 6a
Confucius, The Sayings of ConfuciusVol. 44
- p. 18Hui's anger fell not astray.read · scan
- p. 38True insight is being unmoved by slander and bitter complaints.read · scan
Plato, PhaedoVol. 2
- p. 75–76The philosopher abstains from joys, sorrows, fears and desires as far as possible.read · scan
Buddhist WritingsVol. 45
- p. 598–600The assembly trembles in terror at the quaking earth and is comforted; the Buddha-to-be is to stay equable in good or ill.read · scan
- p. 711–712Sariputta is untroubled by the blow; provocation cannot rouse wrath in the trained man.read · scan
- p. 728–729Joy, happiness, gladness and grief are progressively abandoned for indifference.read · scan
- p. 731–732Passion, hatred and infatuation cease in one who has lost all depravity.read · scan
The Bhagavad-Gita; or, Song CelestialVol. 45
- p. 796The sage dwells beyond passion, fear and anger.read · scan
- p. 809–813Be neither over-glad in joy nor over-sad in grief; master passion and rage.read · scan
- p. 846The ideal man is unmoved by gladness, grief, fear or wrath, meeting praise and blame with equal peace.read · scan
- p. 855–858He is unmoved by grief and joy and unangered by the qualities.read · scan
Plutarch, PericlesVol. 12
- p. 75–76Pericles's dispassionate temper contrasted with passions attributed to gods.read · scan
Epictetus, The Golden Sayings of EpictetusVol. 2
- p. 123–124Trembling and lamenting over events are rebuked.read · scan
- p. 127The impatient man finds fault with solitude and company alike; contentment should replace it.read · scan
- p. 144Freedom from passion and perturbation sought, steady in sleep, wine or dejection.read · scan
- p. 144Anger and lust feed on indulgence.read · scan
- p. 144Anger is to be starved of fuel and mastered.read · scan
- p. 145–146Freedom from anger, envy and jealousy.read · scan
- p. 155–156Must cease giving way to wrath and displeasure.read · scan
- p. 176Answer slander calmly and bear rebuffs at the doors of the powerful without letting outward things touch you.read · scan
Epictetus, Fragments Attributed to EpictetusVol. 2
- p. 183–185Chastise your passions that they not avenge themselves.read · scan
Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations of Marcus AureliusVol. 2
- p. 194Sextus was free from anger and passion yet affectionate.read · scan
- p. 202–203Keep the inner guide pure from passion and thoughtlessness.read · scan
- p. 206He cannot be overpowered by any passion.read · scan
- p. 248It is not right to vex ourselves over things that care nothing for us.read · scan
- p. 250–251Agitations foreign to nature should be left to those who are moved by them.read · scan
- p. 251Do not let understanding sympathize with the affections of the miserable flesh.read · scan
- p. 261Rather than grieve or complain, act; do not be grieved at what does not depend on you.read · scan
- p. 261Freedom from passions makes the mind secure.read · scan
- p. 280Grief, anger and fear are dissatisfaction with what the universal Law appoints.read · scan
- p. 281The discontented man is like a sacrificed pig kicking and screaming.read · scan
- p. 286We must not chafe and fret at what happens.read · scan
Michel de Montaigne, Of the Institution and Education of ChildrenVol. 32
- p. 48–50Philosophy clears the storms of the mind and teaches misery, famine and sickness to laugh.read · scan
Miguel de Cervantes, The History of Don Quixote of the Mancha, Part IVol. 14
- p. 280Don Quixote suppresses his enkindled choler to ride peaceably and hear the princess's grievance.read · scan
William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King LearVol. 46
- p. 252Lear struggles to master rising grief and rage, the 'climbing sorrow' of hysterica passio.read · scan
- p. 252–254Lear fights down his rising heart and fury, then checks himself.read · scan
Blaise Pascal, ThoughtsVol. 48
- p. 118Philosophers have mastered their passions.read · scan
Voltaire, Letters on the EnglishVol. 34
- p. 111–112Newton was never sensible to any passion or frailty.read · scan
George Gordon, Lord Byron, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 789–791Sorrow and pain endured; the soul will not be enslaved by pain.read · scan
Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Earl of Lytton, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1119Hidden suffering and restraint.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-RelianceVol. 5
- p. 72In vision the soul is raised over passion; fear, hope, gratitude and joy fall away into tranquillity.read · scan
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1264–1267Pain met by resolute calm strength from the starread · scan
3b.The controversy over extinguishing versus moderating the passions
Marcus Tullius Cicero, On FriendshipVol. 9
- p. 26Wise men feel distress; without emotion man would be no different from a stone. Sympathy is proper to a rightly ordered mind.read · scan
Pliny the Younger, Letters of PlinyVol. 9
- p. 319–325He grieves for his dead servants, holding that true manhood feels sorrow rather than an unfeeling fortitude.read · scan
Francis Bacon, Essays, Civil and MoralVol. 3
- p. 133–134Anger should be limited, not extinguished as the Stoics would; remembering its harmful effects calms the inclination to it.read · scan
John Milton, Paradise LostVol. 4
- p. 108Rivers of hate, sorrow, lamentation and rage; passion and apathy debated.read · scan
Alexander Pope, Solitude; On a Certain Lady at Court; Essay on ManVol. 40
- p. 415Passions are modes of self-love; they are the gale to reason's card, and strength of mind is exercise, not stoic apathy.read · scan
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in FranceVol. 24
- p. 290–292Superstition is a passion to be corrected and mitigated, not abolished.read · scan
William Wordsworth, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 598–599Chooses not grief but strength in what remains, in human suffering, joys and fears too deep for tears.read · scan
- p. 663–664He counsels controlling rebellious passion and moderating transports.read · scan
Alessandro Manzoni, I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed)Vol. 21
- p. 357–358His mildness is the result of constant discipline over a naturally passionate disposition.read · scan
3c.Delay, reflection and other remedies
Homer, The OdysseyVol. 22
- p. 273–274Odysseus's wrath at the maids' wantonness, compared to a bitch growling over her whelps, and his rebuke of his own heart.read · scan
Epictetus, The Golden Sayings of EpictetusVol. 2
- p. 156Controlling anger is practiced through abuse from others.read · scan
- p. 178Such reflection prevents sudden wrath and harsh conduct.read · scan
Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations of Marcus AureliusVol. 2
- p. 233When disturbed by circumstance, quickly return to yourself and recover harmony.read · scan
Benvenuto Cellini, The Autobiography of Benvenuto CelliniVol. 31
- p. 142Cellini buries injuries in oblivion and curbs his friends' anger.read · scan
- p. 299He restrains his temper three days, then acts with menace and abuse.read · scan
- p. 399Anger drives Cellini to seek a cudgel; reflection cools him and he chooses another vengeance.read · scan
Miguel de Cervantes, The History of Don Quixote of the Mancha, Part IVol. 14
- p. 249–251His sorrow is beyond consolation; he says reasoned counsel is like medicine to a patient who will not take it.read · scan
Francis Bacon, Essays, Civil and MoralVol. 3
- p. 96–97Counting the letters when angry is a device to arrest nature; passion reveals a man's true nature.read · scan
William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of MacbethVol. 46
- p. 373Macduff would rather fight than weep out his sorrow.read · scan
George Wither, I Loved a Lass; The Lover's ResolutionVol. 40
- p. 331–333Sorrow at desertion, then scorn and self-command against despair.read · scan
- p. 333Self-command over despair in love.read · scan
Blaise Pascal, LettersVol. 48
- p. 342–343Irritation at hindrances reveals self-will; patience under them is the testread · scan
William Penn, Some Fruits of SolitudeVol. 1
- p. 325–326Passion cools and murmurs turn to thankfulness when we consider how little we deserve.read · scan
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Profession of Faith of a Savoyard VicarVol. 34
- p. 277Pain and sorrow are borne with patience as transitory.read · scan
Alessandro Manzoni, I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed)Vol. 21
- p. 229–230Recalling the table where he sat with Lucia and Agnese, Renzo sighs and shakes his head to drive the thought away.read · scan
Giuseppe Mazzini, Byron and GoetheVol. 32
- p. 390–391Byron at Rome forgets his passions and petty misery in the presence of a great idea.read · scan
3d.Religious grace and trust in God as the quieter of passions
See also: Will 7b
The Book of PsalmsVol. 44
- p. 155–156The psalmist laments sorrow of heart and long abandonment, then resolves to rejoice in trust.read · scan
- p. 211–212The psalmist's soul is bowed down among enemies like lions, yet his heart becomes fixed in praise.read · scan
- p. 311–313Longing and hope compared to watchmen waiting for morning; the soul quieted like a weaned child.read · scan
The Bhagavad-Gita; or, Song CelestialVol. 45
- p. 843–846Arjuna's terror at the vision gives way to calm and a steady heart when the gentle form returns.read · scan
Epictetus, The Golden Sayings of EpictetusVol. 2
- p. 121–122Kinship with God frees us from sorrows and fears.read · scan
Saint Augustine, The Confessions of St. AugustineVol. 7
- p. 6–7Divine love, jealousy and anger are said to be without passion, anxiety or disturbance.read · scan
Dante Alighieri, ParadiseVol. 20
- p. 423Bernard prays that Dante's affections stay sound and human passions be quelled after the vision.read · scan
Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of ChristVol. 7
- p. 235Hope and fear, grief and perturbation of spirit are calmed by trust in God.read · scan
- p. 237The man who trusts God is neither glad for much nor sorrowful for little.read · scan
- p. 262–263Prayer for deliverance from evil passions and cleansing of inordinate affections.read · scan
- p. 286–287Fears and disquiet of soul stilled by God like calming a storm.read · scan
- p. 294Heart should not be troubled or give way to grief as though hope were gone.read · scan
- p. 302–303Immoderate fear and inordinate love depart with self-surrender.read · scan
- p. 318Sorrow, trouble and consolation shape the servant's prayer.read · scan
- p. 329–330Grief and indignation in tribulation should be checked, borne patiently until returning grace sweetens inward sorrow.read · scan
- p. 343–344Consolation lifts the anxious and cold-hearted out of tribulation and misery to hope.read · scan
Izaak Walton, The Life of Mr. George HerbertVol. 15
- p. 389–390God allows no grief in the soul, his temple; fear and sorrow should be moderated.read · scan
- p. 391Rejoicing commanded even amid afflictions; patience and resignation in suffering.read · scan
George Herbert, PoemsVol. 40
- p. 343–345Grief melts like snow in May when God returns.read · scan
Sir Thomas Browne, Religio MediciVol. 3
- p. 283–284The spirit dispels clouds of horror, fear, sorrow and despair, preserving serenity of mind.read · scan
John Milton, Poems Written at Horton, 1632-1638Vol. 4
- p. 48–49Her fear in the dark wood is calmed by conscience and faith.read · scan
John Milton, Paradise RegainedVol. 4
- p. 371Mary's anxiety, sorrow and patient composure while awaiting her Sonread · scan
Blaise Pascal, ThoughtsVol. 48
- p. 170–171Feelings of humility must come from penitence, feelings of greatness from grace.read · scan
Blaise Pascal, LettersVol. 48
- p. 330–331Grief is consoled by regarding the loss in God's will.read · scan
- p. 334–335Grief of corrupt nature should be moderated by understanding of truth.read · scan
John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's ProgressVol. 15
- p. 115–116Fear, groaning and sorrow in the storm, met with forgiveness and comfort.read · scan
- p. 118Christian's despair is moderated by Hopeful's comfort.read · scan
- p. 311–312She counsels the despondent to cast away fear and hope to the end, remembering deliverance from Despair.read · scan
- p. 314–315Dispondency and Much-afraid bid their slavish fears be shut out, as ghosts that haunt pilgrims.read · scan
Hymns of the Christian Church: Modern HymnsVol. 45
- p. 566–568Fear dispelled and tears lose bitterness with God near.read · scan
John Woolman, The Journal of John WoolmanVol. 1
- p. 175Weeks of affliction without comfort, followed by calm and thankfulness.read · scan
- p. 202Anguish, weakness and tears, then calm after resignation.read · scan
Robert Burns, Poems and SongsVol. 6
- p. 35–37Asks divine help to confine headlong furious passions.read · scan
William Wordsworth, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 664–666He rebukes her weakness in reason and self-government, urging affections raised and solemnized.read · scan
3e.Diversion, drink, music and laughter as relief
Homer, The OdysseyVol. 22
- p. 51Peisistratus says weeping for the dead is proper but not at supper; Helen puts a drug in the wine to banish grief.read · scan
Virgil, The AeneidVol. 13
- p. 268Aeneas floats in a flood of care, anxious mind divided, until sleep relieves his grief.read · scan
Stories from the Thousand and One NightsVol. 16
- p. 217The Khalifeh's anger departs at the music; the fisherman trembles in fear before him.read · scan
Benvenuto Cellini, The Autobiography of Benvenuto CelliniVol. 31
- p. 194Busbacca's fright from the day's perils turns to nightmares of drowning and burning, and the party turns its troubles into laughter.read · scan
- p. 263–266Laughter at the Milanese's silly speeches relieves the peril and misfortune.read · scan
- p. 266–267The party laughs and weeps together over the Milanese's comic speeches during the stitching of his wound, instead of bemoaning ill luck.read · scan
- p. 297Cellini's exasperation at Madame d'Etampes' spite vanishes once he is fed and refreshed.read · scan
- p. 345Cellini's dismay and impatience are eased by his friend Tasso's cheerful singing.read · scan
Ambroise Paré, Journeys in Diverse PlacesVol. 38
- p. 55–56Music, a buffoon and laughter are used to cheer the convalescent; villagers rejoice at his recovery.read · scan
Miguel de Cervantes, The History of Don Quixote of the Mancha, Part IVol. 14
- p. 255–257Music is said to order disordered minds and lighten passions that afflict the spirit; Cardenio's agitation at Fernando's name.read · scan
Samuel Daniel, Beauty, Time, and Love: Sonnets; To SleepVol. 40
- p. 222Sleep sought to escape grief, sorrow and the torment of waking cares and dreams.read · scan
Izaak Walton, The Life of Dr. John DonneVol. 15
- p. 346–347Donne's sadness and study threaten his health; the journey gives him joy and moderates his sorrows.read · scan
Blaise Pascal, ThoughtsVol. 48
- p. 51–52Rest without business or diversion brings weariness, sadness, vexation, despair.read · scan
- p. 56Grief over a dead son and lawsuits is forgotten in the excitement of the boar hunt.read · scan
- p. 56Grief at wife's and son's death is displaced by absorption in a game.read · scan
Robert Burns, Poems and SongsVol. 6
- p. 126–128Grief of the widow mourning lost pleasures, comforted only by drink.read · scan
- p. 143–145Drink relieves grief, care and despair.read · scan
Sir Walter Scott, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 754–755He credits the harp with helping him survive secret woes and grief devoured alone.read · scan
Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Two Years Before the MastVol. 23
- p. 307News of the new course gives the crew something to think and talk about, lifting monotonous dreariness.read · scan
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