An admiral should be put to death now and then to encourage the others.
Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness.
Let us confess it: evil strides the world.
I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.
In this country we find it pays to shoot an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.
The superfluous is the most necessary.