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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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Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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Desert Faith Fool Happiness Life
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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Glory Himself Imagination Noble War
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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Authority Distance Sight Subject
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
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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Courage Examination Myself Religion Sin Thinking
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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Alone Art Genius Himself Man Water
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom

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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