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“Before Guadalcanal the enemy advanced at his pleasure - after Guadalcanal he retreated at ours.”

Pleasure Enemy Military

Author:Halsey

“Envy and resentment are terribly corrosive passions. To suffer at the sight or even the thought of others' enjoyment of life makes one a committed enemy of human happiness. Such people end up being practically a curse upon the human race. They vandalize life, exerting themselves not in the pursuit of gain or pleasure, but to hinder others' enjoyment.”

Source: The Making of the Messiah: Christianity and Resentment

“But it is evident, that these bursts of universal distress are more dreaded than felt; thousands and ten thousands flourish in youth, and wither in age, without the knowledge of any other than domestic evils, and share the same pleasures and vexations, whether their kings are mild or cruel, whether the armies of their country pursue their enemies or retreat before them.”

Country Age Evil Felt Pleasure Enemy Share Youth Kings Ten Universal Army Pursue Distress Evident Retreat

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

“But I do think that women who spend all their lives on a diet probably have a miserable sex life: if your body is the enemy, how can you relax and take pleasure? Everything is about control, rather than relaxing, about holding everything in.”

Ifs Thinking Body Sex Pleasure Enemy Your Body Miserable Diets Relax

Author:Nigella Lawson

“Neither the wrath of Heaven nor the attacks of enemies are as fatal as Pleasure alone when she infects the mind.”

Mind Heaven Pleasure Enemy Wrath

Author:Silius Italicus

“I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it.”

Should Pleasure Enemy Forgiving Checks Curious Morbid

Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde

“Honor is a public enemy, and conscience a domestic, and he that would secure his pleasure, must pay a tribute to one and go halves with t'other.”

Pleasure Pay Half Enemy Honor Conscience Secure Tribute Public Enemies

Author:William Congreve

“He who walks in the company of fools suffers much. Company with fools, as with an enemy, is always painful. Company with the wise is pleasure, like meeting with kinfolk.”

Suffering Walks Pleasure Company Enemy Wise Fool Meetings Painful Buddhist Kinfolk

Author:Gautama Buddha