And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?

I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.

I don't know what the heart is, not I: I only use the word to denote the mind's frailties.

They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.

It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.

Is it not a strange blindness on our part to teach publicly the techniques of warfare and to reward with medals those who prove to be the most adroit killers?

Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.