1 His passion for the Emperor had cooled somewhat in Moscow.
2 You who are so pure can never understand being so carried away by passion.
3 "And now, in token of candor, I ask you to reveal to me your chief passion," said the latter.
4 In the one case as in the other, on both sides the struggle provokes passion and stifles truth.
5 "That passion which more than all others caused you to waver on the path of virtue," said the Mason.
6 Each step of the retreat was accompanied by a complicated interplay of interests, arguments, and passions at headquarters.
7 To a man not swayed by passion that welfare is never certain, but he who commits such a crime always knows just where that welfare lies.
8 On the one hand there is fear and regret for the loss of the whole edifice constructed through the ages, on the other is the passion for destruction.
9 Then, as happens to people of weak character, he desired so passionately once more to enjoy that dissipation he was so accustomed to that he decided to go.
10 She gave him a passionately angry glance, and hardly able to restrain her tears and maintain the artificial smile on her lips, she got up and left the room.
11 It is impossible to eradicate the passions; but we must strive to direct them to a noble aim, and it is therefore necessary that everyone should be able to satisfy his passions within the limits of virtue.
12 Ilagin lifted his beaver cap still higher to Natasha and said, with a pleasant smile, that the young countess resembled Diana in her passion for the chase as well as in her beauty, of which he had heard much.
13 Countess Mary was jealous of this passion of her husband's and regretted that she could not share it; but she could not understand the joys and vexations he derived from that world, to her so remote and alien.
14 These men, carried away by their passions, were but blind tools of the most melancholy law of necessity, but considered themselves heroes and imagined that they were accomplishing a most noble and honorable deed.
15 At one end of the table, the old chamberlain was heard assuring an old baroness that he loved her passionately, at which she laughed; at the other could be heard the story of the misfortunes of some Mary Viktorovna or other.
16 Vera, having noticed Prince Andrew's attentions to Natasha, decided that at a party, a real evening party, subtle allusions to the tender passion were absolutely necessary and, seizing a moment when Prince Andrew was alone, began a conversation with him about feelings in general and about her sister.
17 And he suddenly turned from the cares of army and state and, as far as the passions that seethed around him allowed, immersed himself in the quiet life to which he had formerly been accustomed, as if all that was taking place and all that had still to be done in the realm of history did not concern him at all.
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