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Nature Quotes by Pliny the Elder
- Human nature is fond of novelty.
- Honey comes out of the air At early dawn the leaves of trees are found bedewed with honey. Whether this is the perspiration of the…
- Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
- Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in…
- Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
- Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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- 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
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