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La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims

Book by Luc de Clapiers · 3 quotes · Men, Ifs, Sometimes

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“In order to protect himself from force, man was obliged to submit to justice. Justice or force: he was compelled to choose between the two masters, so little are we made to be independent.”

“With kings, nations, and private individuals, the strongest assume to themselves rights over the weakest, and the same rule is followed by animals, by matter, by the elements, so that everything is performed in the universe by violence. And that order which we blame with some appearance of justice is the most universal, most absolute, most unchangeable, and most ancient law of nature.”