Superstition excites storms; philosophy appeases them. [ Voltaire ]

Nothing more excites to everything noble and generous than virtuous love. [ Henry Home ]

The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm which it excites. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

A person who talks with equal vivacity on every subject excites no interest in any. [ Hazlitt ]

Enthusiasm is always connected with the senses, whatever be the object that excites it. [ E. Kant ]

Philosophy, when superficially studied, excites doubt: when thoroughly explored, it dispels it. [ Bacon ]

Difficulty excites the mind to the dignity which sustains and finally conquers misfortunes, and the ordeal refines while it chastens. [ Aughey ]

To be able simply to say of a man he has character, is not only saying much of him, but extolling him; for this is a rarity which excites respect and wonder. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

There is something in meanness? which excites a species of resentment that never subsides, and something in cruelty which stirs up the heart to the highest agony of human hatred. [ Thomas Paine ]

The world is divided into two armies. Men make offensive war, women defensive. Love exalts and excites the two parties. They meet hand to hand. Love throws himself into their midst, agitating his torch. But the struggle differs from other battles: instead of destroying, it multiplies the combatants. [ S. Marechal ]