#nature

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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There was a Republican majority of the Senate, and it tempered the nature of the nominations being made. ↗

— Spencer Abraham

#made #majority #nature #nominations #republican

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. ↗

— Aristotle

#all things #marvelous #something #things

All men by nature desire knowledge. ↗

— Aristotle

#knowledge #men #nature

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all. ↗

— Aristotle

#blaze #day #evident #eyes #most

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince. ↗

— Plato

#deceive #earth #equal #god #however

He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature. ↗

— Aristotle

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None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue. ↗

— Mary Astell

#consider #contemptible #creatures #fly #god

It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#course #destination #distance #historical #line

Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art. ↗

— Philip James Bailey

#first #first step #last #natures #simplicity