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Nature confuses the skeptics and reason confutes the dogmatists
Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given
Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin
Self-preservation is the first law of nature
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature
As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others
Nature has always had more force than education
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better
Deviation from nature is deviation from happiness
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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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