There is no smoke without fire, and there is no ethically repugnant principle without logic. - Theodore Dalrymple

It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it—in other words, by becoming civilized—that men become fully human.

The nearer emotional life approaches to hysteria, to continual outward show, the less genuine it becomes. Feeling becomes equated with vehemence of expression, so that insincerity becomes permanent.

It is surely almost self-evident that the strongest political emotions are negative: for example, the rich are hated much more than the poor are loved.