#human nature

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

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Law is born from despair of human nature. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Horrifying as it was to crack up in the public eye, it made me look at myself and fix it. People were exploitative; that's human nature. ↗

— Margot Kidder

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It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave. ↗

— Sallust

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The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

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Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault. ↗

— Joseph Smith, Jr.

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Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own. ↗

— Terence

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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured. ↗

— Tacitus

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