“Pleasure, a most mighty lure to evil.”
Section 69d (W. R. M. Lamb's translation); also rendered: pleasure, "the bait of sin" (W.A. Falconer's translation).
Timaeus
“The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.”
— Samuel Richardson, book Clarissa
Vol. 1, p. 286; Letter 43.
Clarissa (1747–1748)
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