Man In General, If Reduced To Himself,

There Is No Philosophy Without The Art Of Ignoring Objections.

All Grandeur, All Power, And All Subordination To Authority Rests On The Executioner: He Is The Horror And The Bond Of Human Association. Remove This Incomprehensible Agent From The World And At That Very Moment Order Gives Way To Chaos, Thrones Topple And Society Disappears.

Man Is Insatiable For Power; He Is Infantile In His Desires And, Always Discontented With What He Has, Loves Only What He Has Not. People Complain Of The Despotism Of Princes; They Ought To Complain Of The Despotism Of Man.

It Is One Of Man's Curious Idiosyncrasies To Create Difficulties For The Pleasure Of Resolving Them.

War Is Thus Divine In Itself, Since It Is A Law Of The World. War Is Divine Through Its Consequences Of A Supernatural Nature Which Are As Much General As Particular. War Is Divine In The Mysterious Glory That Surrounds It And In The No Less Inexplicable Attraction That Draws Us To It. War Is Divine By The Manner In Which It Breaks Out.