Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?
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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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Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.
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