What is more immoral than war?
What is more immoral than war?
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What is more immoral than war?
The more defects a man may have the older he is the less lovable the more resounding his success.
Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life it supports them all lends strength to them all ambition cruelty avarice revenge are all founded on lust.
Nature who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues inspires now this impulse now that one in accordance with what she requires.
The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion which agitates her at all times but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes she conserves it by means of crimes only.
All all is theft all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost – the most legitimate – passion nature has bred into us and without doubt the most agreeable one.
Destruction hence like creation is one of Nature's mandates.
There is no God Nature sufficeth unto herself in no wise hath she need of an author.
Nature has not got two voices you know one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.
Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
The imagination is the spur of delights… all depends upon it it is the mainspring of everything now is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?