Nature Quotes

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature. (Marcus Aurelius)
All art is an imitation of nature. View quote
Seneca
The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal. View quote
Cicero
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature . View quote
Charles Dickens
Everything in excess is opposed to nature. View quote
Hippocrates
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity. (15) View quote
Epicurus
Nature creates nothing without a purpose. View quote
Aristotle
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. View quote
Laozi
It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it. (Aristotle)
On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power in the minority, an answering withdrawal of mimesis on the part of the majority, and a consequent loss of social unity in the society as a whole. View quote
Arnold J. Toynbee
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them. View quote
Epictetus
By nature, men are nearly alike by practice, they get to be wide apart. View quote
Confucius
Nature has given to men one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak. View quote
Epictetus
Custom is almost second nature. View quote
Plutarch
To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
I think computer viruses should count as life ... I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. View quote
Stephen Hawking
All men by nature desire to know. View quote
Aristotle
Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity. View quote
Xun Zi
Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence. When the mind has settled, we are established in our essential nature, which is unbounded Consciousness. Our essential nature is usually overshadowed by the activity of the mind. (Patañjali)
Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond. View quote
Livy
You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back. View quote
Horace
But Nature flies from the infinite, for the infinite is unending or imperfect, and Nature ever seeks an end. View quote
Aristotle
We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature. View quote
Plutarch
📖 Nature Proverbs