Law 2: Never Put Too Much Trust In Friends, Learn How To Use Enemies. Be wary of friends — they will betray you more quickly, for they are easily aroused to envy. But hire a former enemy and he will be more loyal than a friend, because he has more to prove. In fact, you have more to fear from friends than from enemies.

Science includes many principles at least once thought to be laws of nature: Newton’s law of gravitation, his three laws of motion, the ideal gas laws, Mendel’s laws, the laws of supply and demand, and so on. Other regularities important to science were not thought to have this status.

Laws of nature are of two basic forms: (1) a law is universal if it states that some conditions, so far as are known, invariably are found together with certain other conditions; and (2) a law is probabilistic if it affirms that, on the average, a stated fraction of cases displaying a given condition will display a …

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• #1: Master Your Emotional Self.
• #2: Transform Self-love into Empathy.
• #3: See Through People’s Mask.
• #4: Determine the Strength of People’s Character.
• #5: Become an Elusive Object of Desire.
• #6: Elevate Your Perspective.
• #7: Soften People’s Resistance by Confirming Their Self-Opinion.

LAW 44. The mirror reflects reality, but it is also the perfect tool for deception: when you mirror your enemies, doing exactly as they do, they cannot figure out your strategy. The Mirror Effect mocks and humiliates them, making them overreact.

Natural law is a theory in ethics and philosophy that says that human beings possess intrinsic values that govern our reasoning and behavior. Natural law maintains that these rules of right and wrong are inherent in people and are not created by society or court judges.

The Laws of Human Nature is the best book I read in 2018 and one of the best books I’ve read ever. The book is a perennial seller and in typical Greene style it contains social psychological lessons from human history you can use as a point of reference time and again.

Some of you might have tried reading “The 48 Laws of Power”, a classic book on human psychology written by Robert Greene. Most of the laws are undeniably true. But if you have any sense of morality, the book may leave you feeling very uncomfortable.

Law 1: Never outshine the master In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite—inspire fear and insecurity. Make your masters appear more brilliant than they are and you will attain the heights of power.

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Lewis speaks about the ‘Law of Right and Wrong’ or the ‘Law of Nature’. The term ‘Law of Nature’ refers to the fact that it is part of our human nature and is therefore something we all know by virtue of just being human. Lewis believed that we know right from wrong, and still defy it.

SUMMARY. The key to understanding our own behavior, and that of others, is to realize that there are 18 laws that make up human nature—forces like irrationality, narcissism, and covetousness; repression, envy, and aimlessness.

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Human nature is a concept that denotes the fundamental dispositions and characteristics—including ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—that humans are said to have naturally. The term is often used to denote the essence of humankind, or what it ‘means’ to be human.

Man-made law is law that is made by humans, usually considered in opposition to concepts like natural law or divine law. In the Thomistic view dominant in the Medieval period, man-made law is the lowest form of law, as a determinatio of natural law or divine positive law.

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