Almost all marriages are only concubinages, liaisons, or rather provisional attempts, remote approximations of real marriage. The ...true nature of marriage does not conform to the paradoxes of this or that system, but rather according to all canonical and secular laws that more than one person should become only one. This ought to warrant the least possible infringement of free will, which certainly has a right to be consulted when the question at issue is whether one is to be an individual or only the integral part of a common personality; it is even hard see what legitimate argument can be raised against a marriage à quatre. But if the state must insist on holding together those attempts at marriage that have failed, it is actually obstructing marriage, for its cause would be advanced by new and possibly more successful attempts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Researchers, with science as their authority, will be able to cut [animals] up, alive, into small pieces, drop them from a great h...eight to see if they are shattered by the fall, or deprive them of sleep for sixteen days and nights continuously for the purposes of an iniquitous monograph.... "Animal trust, undeserved faith, when at last will you turn away from us? Shall we never tire of deceiving, betraying, tormenting animals before they cease to trust us?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A bestial and violent man will go so far as to kill because he is under the influence of drink, exasperated, or driven by rage and... alcohol. He is paltry. He does not know the pleasure of killing, the charity of bestowing death like a caress, of linking it with the play of the noble wild beasts: every cat, every tiger, embraces its prey and licks it even while it destroys it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It's nothing to be born ugly. Sensibly, the ugly woman comes to terms with her ugliness and exploits it as a grace of nature. To b...ecome ugly means the beginning of a calamity, self-willed most of the time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »