Bonsai of Thoughts (Translated)

Bonsai of Thoughts: One Hundred Seventy-Two

1. What good have I done you
that you cause me such pain?

2. Rather than loving someone,
it's more important not to annoy them.

3. What greater satisfaction is there than hatred!

4. Women first learn to love after falling for someone. They love love itself for the sake of that person.
Later, because they love to love, they want to hold onto the person. They love the person for the sake of love.

5. In love,
every deception
seems heavenly at first.

6. Playboys and politicians have just one thing in common:
by sheer shamelessness they can keep everyone happy.

7. The easiest way to console oneself is: to go around slandering the successful.

8. For lying in bed during the day
there's no sweeter excuse than sex.

9. Though one may marry for love,
one cannot sustain marriage on love alone.

10. People only tolerate meaningless chatter from young women, not from old ones.

11. The more fans one has,
the more endangered one becomes.

12. Two kinds of people can never become politicians:
Those who don't lie.
Those who can't stomach lies.

13. A man who is neither rich nor useful
gets no attention from anyone.

14. Forcing people to read your writing
doesn't make you a writer.

15. In love,
as much as minds merge,
flesh merges even more.

16. Two people
lie side by side
thinking of someone else
—this is married life.

17. Though law may be the mother of justice,
justice may not be the child of law.

18. When it comes to uniting people,
hatred has far more power than love.

19. Those who fail at love
make suicide easier for themselves
by marrying in hopes of happiness.

20. Some are truly virtuous,
some truly ugly.
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