"Passions are opposed to passions and one can serve as a counterweight to another."

— Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715-1747)


Place of Publication
Paris
Publisher
Briasson
Date
1746
Metaphor
"Passions are opposed to passions and one can serve as a counterweight to another."
Metaphor in Context
Les passions s'opposent aux passions, et peuvent se servir de contrepoids; mais la passion dominante ne peut se conduire que par son propre intérêt, vrai ou imaginaire, parce que'elle règne despotiquement sur la volonté, sans laquelle rien ne se peut.
(p. 239)
Provenance
Reading A. O. Hirschman's The Passions and the Interests. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1997. p. 27.
Citation
Marquis de Vauvenargues. Oeuvres complètes. Vol. I. Paris: Hachette, 1968. p. 239.
Date of Entry
10/20/2003
Date of Review
10/16/2006

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.