The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.

Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.

If you're willing to take the humiliation of sticking your head above the crowd, maybe it's, you know, the pleasure will be worth the pain.

Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it.

If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

The Puritan hated bear-baiting not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators