There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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More Stendhal Quotes
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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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Our true passions are selfish.
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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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