yet another effort

"If, for the vainglory of establishing your principles outside your
country, you neglect to care for your own felicity at home, despotism,
which is no more than asleep, will awake, you will be rent by
intestine disorder, you will have exhausted your monies and your
soldiers, and all that, all that to return to kiss the manacles, that
the tyrants, who will have subjugated you during your absence, will
impose upon you; all you desire may be wrought without leaving your
home: let other people observe you happy, and they will rush to
happiness by the same road you have traced for them." -- de Sade