“The person who grieves, suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.”
More from Edmund Burke
“Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever: But, as in the exercise of all the…”
“A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.”
“Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil.”
“Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.”