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

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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

— Aulus Persius Flaccus

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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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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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What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now. ↗

— Maurice Strong

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If it pleases you and you can write at all, it's gonna please somebody else. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

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They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it. ↗

— Jack Cade

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Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

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