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Nature Quotes by Seneca the Younger
- For greed, all nature is too little.
- Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.
- To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of…
- There is nothing that Nature has made necessary which is more easy than death; we are longer a-coming into the world than going out of…
- On entering a temple we assume all signs of reverence. How much more reverent then should we be before the heavenly bodies, the stars, the…
- Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
- True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model.
- We are members of one great body. Nature planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life. We must consider that…
- We are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things to which nature has assigned the lowest place. What can be more…
- The time will come when diligent research over periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden...Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to…
- What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
- Nature ever provides for her own exigencies.
- Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation...
- Nature does not reveal all her secrets at once. We imagine we are initiated in her mysteries: we are, as yet, but hanging around her…
- Resistance to oppression is second nature.
- Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
- The bounty of nature is too little for the greedy person.
- That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this…
- What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.
- Our life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a longer span.
- Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.
- Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.
- If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.
- In a moment the ashes are made, but a forest is a long time growing.
- All art is but imitation of nature.
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