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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Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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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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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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