But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful.
UnknownThe unforgivable sin of Hitler's Germany was to develop a new economic system by which the international bankers were deprived of their profits.
UnknownIf I could reach up and hold a star for every time you made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand.
UnknownWe need a revolution every 200 years, because all governments become stale and corrupt after 200 years.
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