#natur

Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#commands #condemning #day #got #know

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#bred #competition #desire #doubt #foremost

Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#equilibrium #general #her #impulse #inspires

The nature of comedy is 'just do it.' But I think what's interesting about it is this joke has been around and why. And it's just saying what's wrong and how wrong can you be if you say it. ↗

— Bob Saget

#around #been #comedy #how #i

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

#brave #coward #defeat #even #his

In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural. ↗

— Sallust

#case #conduct #habitual #life #my own

I grew up cursing a lot. It felt natural. My parents told me to stop. ↗

— Adam Sandler

#felt #grew #i #lot #me

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep. ↗

— George Santayana

#done #duty #his #man #natural

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him. ↗

— George Santayana

#diseases #him #instincts #less #man

Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#adolescence #atmosphere #beginning #being #critical