They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.
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I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?
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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.
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