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Power is pleasure; and pleasure sweetens pain.

Power is pleasure; and pleasure sweetens pain.

William Hazlitt
Pain, Power, Pleasure
William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.139

The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.

William Hazlitt
Power, Knowing, Genius
William Hazlitt (1857). “The Miscellaneous Works of William Hazlitt”, p.38

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

William Hazlitt
Power, Delicacy, Persons
William Hazlitt, Edward George Earle Lytten Butwer-Lytton Lyton (1st baron), Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1836). “Essays: On self-love. On the conduct of life: or, Advice to a school-boy. On the fine arts. The fight. On want of money. On the feeling of immortality in youth. The main-chance. The opera. Of persons one would wish to have seen. My first acquaintance with poets. The shyness of scholors. The Vatican. On the spirit of monarchy”, p.258

Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination.

William Hazlitt
Power, Crowds, Dirt

Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.

William Hazlitt
Honesty, Power, Hypocrisy
William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.487

The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave.

William Hazlitt
Men, Power, Tyrants
William Hazlitt (1819). “Political essays, with sketches of public characters”, p.163

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