"To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent." — Madame de Stael

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• Being a vegan is a first-world phenomenon, completely self-indulgent. — Anthony Bourdain
• In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it… — Christian Nestell Bovee
• For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent. — Diablo Cody
• You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity...servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness,… — Niccolo Machiavelli
• If, however, you are indulgent, but unable to make your authority felt; kind-hearted, but unable to enforce your commands; and… — Sun Tzu
• The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use; of how… — John F. Kennedy
• No marvel if the worldling escape earthly afflictions. God corrects him not. He is base born and begot. God will… — Joseph Hall
• Unlike some people who have experienced the loss of an animal, I did not believe, even for a moment, that… — Cleveland Amory
• There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. If God is like the Moral… — C.S. Lewis
• A Jew cannot be a true patriot. He is something different, like a bad insect. He must be kept apart,… — Wilhelm II
• Say I feel all sad and self-indulgent, then get stung by a wasp, my misery feels quite abstract and I… — Russell Brand
• We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible. — Joseph Joubert

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