“Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.”
Source: 1920s, Sceptical Essays (1928), Ch. 10: Recrudescence of Puritanism
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“Throwing yourself into a job you enjoy is one of the life's greatest pleasures!”
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“Nor power nor pleasure e'er can be enjoyed,
What time they with suspicion are alloyed.”
Ne la grandezza giova ne 'l diletto,
Che s'acquista o si tenga con sospetto.
XXXVII, 29
Rifacimento of Orlando Innamorato
A Woman's Thoughts About Women (1858)
Context: Nevertheless, taking life as a whole, believing that it consists not in what we have, but in our power of enjoying the same; that there are in it things nobler and dearer than ease, plenty, or freedom from care — nay, even than existence itself; surely it is not Quixotism, but common-sense and Christianity, to protest that love is better than outside show, labour than indolence, virtue than mere respectability
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God, Reverential fear and love
Source: La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma) (1839), Ch. 7
Context: The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness and love give. I am a man before being a prince, and when I have the good fortune to be in love my mistress addresses a man and not a prince.
Source: The Greening of America (1970), Chapter X : Beyond Youth: Recovery Of Self, p. 279