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• The most venerable, clearly understood, enlightened, and reliable constant in the world is not only that we want to be happy, but… — Saint Augustine
• But neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to… — Ayn Rand
• What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat. — Seneca the Younger
• True conformity to the dictates of nature requires reverence for the past and solicitude for the future. 'Nature' is not simply the… — Russell Kirk
• A field is the most just possession for men. For what nature requires it carefully bears: barley, oil, wine, figs, honey. Silver-plate… — Philemon
• Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with. — Mark Twain
• Virtue is the nursing-mother of all human pleasures, who, in rendering them just, renders them also pure and permanent; in moderating them,… — Socrates
• In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. — Benjamin Franklin

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