Love can not be much younger than the lust for murder.
Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love.
Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.
A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.