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.....l n’y a point de droit naturel: ce mot n'est qu’une antique niaiserie... Avant la loi il n’y a de naturel que la force du lion, ou le besoin de l’être qui a faim, qui a froid, le besoin en un mot.
.....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 and cold, in short, need.
..........— Stendhal (the most famous of the pen-names of Marie Henri Beyle) (1783-1842), French writer. Le Rouge et le Noir [The Red and the Black] (1830).
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