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"It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver."
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"To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure."
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"Drink the nectar of love from the flowers of life."
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"Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it."
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"The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."
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"I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure."
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"Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure."
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"A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity."
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"... I experienced, suddenly, that special pleasure, which bore no resemblance to any other..."
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"Not town can live peacefully, whatever its laws," Plato wrote, "when its citizens ... do nothing but feast and drink and tire themselves out in the cares of love."But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of one's life, is it so awful to travel through time with no greater ambition than to find the next lovely meal? Or to learn how to speak a language for no higher purpose than that it pleases your ear to hear it? Or to nap in a garden, in a patch of sunlight, in the middle of the day, right next to your favorite fountain? And then to do it again the next day?"
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"And not wretched sausages half full of bread and soya bean either, but real meaty, spicy ones, fat and piping hot and burst and just the tiniest bit burnt."
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"Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain."
Gain
"To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people."
Nature
"Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked."
Man
"Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself."
Strategy
"Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil."
Evil
"If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared."
Justice
"It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver."
Pleasure
"The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow."
Law
"There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others."
War
"The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love."
Love
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