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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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Cold Hungry Law Natural Need Strength Suffering
It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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Coward Enlightenment Heart Ourselves Reading
If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Love Matter Myself Ourselves
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
Sometimes the impact of Mozart’s music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
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Blurry Direct Impact Mindset Music Sadness Time Vision
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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Age Boredom Cure Curse Strange
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
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Clever Fear Foundation Religion Smart
I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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Action Crystal Discover Event Mindset
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Fever Love Process Willing
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
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
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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