Capacity Quote by Marquis de Sade

In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to…

— Jonathan Swift

Caring passionately about something isn't against nature, and it isn't against human nature. It's what we're here to do.

— Annie Dillard

Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us,…

— Michel de Montaigne

Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it.

— Bertrand Russell

Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ourselves apart, and often calls us to do so, to teach us…

— Michel de Montaigne

Nature is purposeless. Nature simply is. We may find nature beautiful or terrible, but those feelings are human constructions. Such utter and complete mindlessness…

— Alan Lightman

Love and kindness are the very basis of society. If we lose these feelings, society will face tremendous difficulties; the survival of humanity will…

— Dalai Lama

Nature seems to have treasured up the depth of our mind talents and abilities that we are not aware of; it is the privilege…

— Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

Each of us needs what nature gives us, when nature gives us.

— Marcus Aurelius

Nature loves nothing solitary, and always reaches out to something, as a support, which ever in the sincerest friend is most delightful.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We have to take care about nature as much as nature is taking care about us. Nature is very kind with us. And if…

— Shimon Peres