#plea

On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

#always #anyone #because #cannot #die

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#history #love #love is #marriage #more

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#cow #grazing #mere #must #pleasure

Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you. ↗

— Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

#find #nature #perception #place #pleases

Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else. ↗

— Iris Chang

#duty #else #first #please #towards

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions. ↗

— Pierre Charron

#constant #contrived #directly #opposite #pain

Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#attic #being #being content #content #contented

You're never able to please everybody, especially when you're transforming a country like Russia. ↗

— Anatoly Chubais

#country #especially #everybody #like #never

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#am #approve #body #follows #him

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#doing #far #force #law #man