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Nature gives you a daily example of living.

Quote by Nicolae Iorga about nature, example, contentment

Nature and wisdom never are at strife.

Quote by Plutarh about wisdom, nature

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.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about nature, habits

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

Quote by Aristotel about virtue, nature, habits, moral

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about poetry, recollection, nature, memory, imagination, poets

The state is a creation of nature and man is by nature a political animal.

Quote by Aristotel about politics, nature, creation, state, man

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

Quote by Augustin de Hipona about miracle, nature

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

Quote by Albert Camus about law, nature, rules, instinct

Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about idea, nature

Beauty is our weapon against nature, by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

Quote by Camille Paglia about nature, beauty, limits, objects

If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account, it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.

Quote by Paracelsus about nature, man

Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this, and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.

Quote by Paracelsus about nature, common sense, fight, help, body, death

Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature, as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about man, nature, being, good, good luck

Read nature, nature is a friend of truth.

Quote by Edward Young about truth, nature

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.

Quote by Marilyn Monroe about sex, nature

One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

Quote by Jack London about opinion, nature

We must return to nature and nature's god.

Quote by Luther Burbank about nature, god

Why should I want green eyes, when the nature endowed me with brown eyes and my brown eyes can see the green of the nature.

Quote by Bob Marley about nature, eyes

I pray to mighty God to keep me child forever, to make me see and reproduce nature like a child, without prejudices.

Quote by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot about god, children, pray, nature

Hope is the nature's veil for hiding the nakedness of truth.

Quote by Alfred Nobel about truth, hope, nature