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“It's hard not to hate. People, things, institutions. When they break your spirit and take pleasure in watching you bleed, hate is the only feeling that makes sense. That's what I need to tell you. To let you know how hard I'm trying not to cave under the weight of all the awful things I feel in my heart. When I look at my day, I realize most of it was spent cleaning up the damage of the day before. In that life I have no future. All I have is distraction and remorse.”

“A man who knows how to mix pleasures with business is never entirely possessed by them; he either quits or resumes them at his will; and in the use he makes of them he rather finds a relaxation than a dangerous charm that might corrupt him.”

Knows Men Use Might Pleasure Know How Dangerous Quitting Charm Possessed Relaxation Resumes

Author:Charles de Saint-Evremond

“Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it. Some spoil them when they are young, and then quarrel with them when they are grown up, for having been spoiled; some love them like mothers, and attend only to the bodily health and strength of the hopes of their family, solemnize his birthday, and rejoice, like the subjects of the Great Mogul, at the increase of his bulk: while others, minding, as they think, only essentials, take pains and pleasure to see in their heir, all their favourite weaknesses and imperfections.”

Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

“Every one of us knows how painful it is to be called by malicious names, to have his character undermined by false insinuations, to be overreached in a bargain, to be neglected by those who rise in life, to be thrust on one side by those who have stronger wills and stouter hearts. Every one knows, also, the pleasure of receiving a kind look, a warm greeting, a hand held out to help in distress, a difficulty solved, a higher hope revealed for this world or the next. By that pain and by that pleasure let us judge what we should do to others.”

“The most necessary disposition to relish pleasures is to know how to be without them.”

Knows Pleasure Know How Disposition Moderation Relish

Author:Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles

“To really enjoy pleasures, you must know how to leave them.”

Knows Enjoy Pleasure Know How

Author:Voltaire

“There are two things that I get a lot of pleasure from in my life, and that is, doing what I know how to do well - that really makes me happy. The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.”

Knows Wells I Can Two Pleasure Know How Equal Findings Two Things Helpful Make Me Happy

Author:Alan Alda

“Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure, if you know how to use it. The best morsel is reserved for last.”

Ifs Knows Use Age Lasts Pleasure Know How And Love Old Age Cherish Reserved

Author:Seneca the Younger