#pleases

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases? ↗

— Aulus Persius Flaccus

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I claim for Canada this, that in future Canada shall be at liberty to act or not act, to interfere or not interfere, to do just as she pleases, and that she shall reserve to herself the right to judge whether or not there is cause for her to act. ↗

— Wilfrid Laurier

#canada #cause #claim #future #her

Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction; that it pleases if we also do not possess it and we are still far removed from demanding to possess it. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

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It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must. ↗

— Carl Van Vechten

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Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases. ↗

— Jeremy Collier

#fair #great #pleases #turn

Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music. ↗

— Paul McCartney

#go #into #me #more #music

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#discover #happily #her #how #man