#nat

God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech. ↗

— Quintilian

#architect #character #creator #distinguish #faculty

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly. ↗

— Quintilian

#changes #effect #great #great changes #herself

To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination. ↗

— Quintilian

#boy #critical #develops #faculty #gives

The world is in such a bad condition that if they don't find what you call a redeemer, every man, woman and child on this planet will be eliminated. ↗

— Sun Ra

#call #child #condition #eliminated #every

There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

#benevolence #cause #charity #expecting #harm

I would like Israel to be a Jewish state, and therefore not to annex over 2 million Palestinians who live in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to Israel, which will make Israel a bi-national state. ↗

— Yitzhak Rabin

#gaza #i #israel #jewish #jewish state

I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination. ↗

— Jean Racine

#hearts #i #inclination #know #own

I had one relative who passed away but fortunately none others. So my sort of experience of it is quite limited, thankfully. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#experience #fortunately #had #i #limited

Let them be reassured, it has never been one of our intentions to ban religion in society, but solely to protect the national education system from any conspicuous display of religious affiliation. ↗

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

#any #ban #been #conspicuous #display

We must stress that the euro has been beneficial to the European Union because, otherwise, in this context of international turmoil, every country would have to devalue their currencies. ↗

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

#been #beneficial #context #country #currencies