For better or for worse, in 'The Last Savage,' I have dared to do away completely with fashionable dissonance, and in a modest way, I have endeavored to rediscover the nobility of gracefulness and the pleasure of sweetness.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.
There are various kinds of savagery: emotional, spiritual, economic, and cultural savagery.
As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.
When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.
I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.
Elegance is inferior to virtue.
I have learned in fashion to be a little savage.