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

Consider the problem from the point of view of evil, evil being almost always pleasure's true and major charm; considered thus, the crime must appear greater when perpetrated upon a being of your identical sort than when inflicted upon one which is not, and this once established, the delight automatically doubles.

It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.

If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are held over for another life, for is it not true as written in Holy Scripture that the Lord chastenenth only the righteous! And after all, is not virtue it's own reward?

Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy! Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all!

Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.

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