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Nature Quotes by Plutarch
- We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature.
- Custom is almost a second nature.
- Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and gross by reason of satiety…
- Nature without learning is like a blind man; learning without Nature, like a maimed one; practice without both, incomplete. As in agriculture a good soil…
- Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless.
- Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'.
- We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.
- ...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage
- Nature and wisdom never are at strife.
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