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- None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and… — Mary Astell
- Evil men by their own nature cannot ever prosper. — Euripides
- The gratification which affluence of wealth, extent of power, and eminence of reputation confer, must be always, by their own nature, confined… — Samuel Johnson
- It is a singular advantage of taxes on articles of consumption that they contain in their own nature a security against excess.… — Alexander Hamilton
- Stupidity is much the same all the world over. A stupid person's notions and feelings may confidently be inferred from those which… — John Stuart Mill
- Given the sin of impiety through which they [the Romans] sinned against the divine nature [by idolatry], the punishment that led them… — Thomas Aquinas
- He (the sage) wants all things to follow their own nature, but dares not act. — Laozi
- Fish cannot drown in water. Birds cannot sink in air. This has God given to all creatures, to foster and seek their… — Mechthild of Magdeburg
- And is an ending always bad? it asked. Must not all things, even worlds, someday end?"There is no need to hasten that… — Brandon Sanderson
- Reason is just as cunning as she is powerful. Her cunning consists principally in her mediating activity, which, by causing objects to… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Wearing spectacles makes men conceited, because spectacles raise them to a degree of sensual perfection which is far above the power of… — Johann Peter Eckermann
- People who don't see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools. — Bodhidharma