Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?

One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.

Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace

Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?

Sensual excess drives out pity in man.

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

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