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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused
We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor
If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the particular results at that point
The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling
Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil
Nature is not human hearted
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished
Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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