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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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The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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Animal Desire Fashion Greatness Luxury Majority Man Possession Woman Young
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
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Death Fools Grief Man Ordinary Personage Powerful Procedure
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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Emotion Ideas Judgement Life Mistake Public Shock
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Happiness Myself Pleasure Time
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Fine Hide Love Man Passion
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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Enough History Interest Moral
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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Better Collection Future Hope Lost Love Passion Yourself
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil

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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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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