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Nature Quotes by Lord Chesterfield
- Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.
- The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
- Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature.
- I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which…
- Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person.
- Human nature is the same everywhere; the modes only are different.
More Nature Quotes
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle