"Kings are the slaves of history."

-- Leo Tolstoy

#Kings Quotes #Slave Quotes

“One does not "find oneself" by pursuing one's self, but on the contrary by pursuing something else and learning through discipline or routine. . . who one is and wants to be.”
“The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism.”
“It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.”

Source : Marquis de Sade “Philosophy in the Bedroom: An Erotic Novel”, Library of Alexandria
“It seems Iâ€™m getting fresher everytime I turn around.”
“The Tories had the legal right to demand extra meetings of the council but I could decide when they would be held and always called them for Friday afternoons, knowing that three or four of the richer Tories went to the country early and were not prepared to stay in the city beyond lunchtime. I realised that nothing in politics is new when I read in Suetonius's The Twelve Caesars that Julius Caesar pulled the same trick when reactionaries in the senate were making his life difficult.”
“Chemotherapy is an opponent in itself - simultaneously curing you and hurting you.”
“I enjoy dating married men because they don't want anything kinky, like breakfast.”
“The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.”

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