“What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.”
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“A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.”
“It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.”
“Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.”
“It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.”
“Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.”
“There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.”
“Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?”
“Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.”
“Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.”
“Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.”
“Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.”
“The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.”
“Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.”
“Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?”
“Self-preservation is the first law of nature.”
“It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.”
“Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.”
“Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.”
“Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.”
“Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.”
“Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.”
“I love not man the less, but Nature more.”
“Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.”