Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library, 1997.
-- Alexander Pope, (May 21 1688-1744), English poet; He is remembered as a major satirist of Augustan age; wrote The Rape of the Lock, 1714 and Moral Essays, 1731-35.