#pleases

The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly. ↗

— Stendhal

#less #more #pleases #profoundly

Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds. ↗

— Henri La Fontaine

#meadows #pleases #sent #sheep #shepherds

I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#any #attention #care #common #culture

Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

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Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you. ↗

— Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#long time #longer #look #pains #pleases

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

— Blaise Pascal

#fight #pleases #us #victory

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

#anything #approaching #brute #brute force #citizens

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

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