O happiness of blindness! now no beauty
Inflames my lust; no other's goods my envy,
Or misery my pity; no man's wealth
Draws my respect; nor poverty my scorn,
Yet still I see enough! man to himself
Is a large prospect, raised above the level
Of his low creeping thoughts; if then I have
A world within myself, that world shall be
My empire; there I'll reign, commanding freely,
And willingly obeyed, secure from fear
Of foreign forces, or domestic treasons. [ Denham ]

Absence cools moderate passions, but inflames violent ones. [ Proverb ]

Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him. [ Schiller ]

A friend exaggerates a man's virtues, an enemy inflames his crimes. [ Addison ]

Fire burns only when we are near it, but a beautiful face burns and inflames, though at a distance. [ Xenophon ]

That chastity of look which seems to hang a veil of purest light over all her beauties, and by forbidding most inflames desire. [ Young ]

There is a magic in the word duty, something I know not what, which sustains magistrates, inflames warriors, and cools married people. [ H. Dupuy ]