There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful

Quote by Samuel Johnson

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Pleasure itself is not a vice

Pleasure itself is not a vice

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with...

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with...

All theory is against the freedom of the will; all experience for it

All theory is against the freedom of the will; all experience for it

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his...

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his...

You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those...

You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those...

What is easy is seldom excellent.

What is easy is seldom excellent.

He who endeavors to please must appear pleased

He who endeavors to please must appear pleased

Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly:...

Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly:...

I can't drink a little, therefore I never touch it. Abstinance is as easy for...

I can't drink a little, therefore I never touch it. Abstinance is as easy for...

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without...

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without...

Whatever is attempted without previous certainty of success, may be considered as a project, and...

Whatever is attempted without previous certainty of success, may be considered as a project, and...

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at...

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at...

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward...

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward...

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even...

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even...

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own...

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own...

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is...

To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is...

Manipulators rarely advise you to seek new and diverse information or to learn and research...

Manipulators rarely advise you to seek new and diverse information or to learn and research...

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.