Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things. – Richard Dawkins
It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win. – John Paul Jones
Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness. – Benjamin Disraeli
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness. – George Eliot
Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished. – Francis Bacon
Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself. – Leo Tolstoy
Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society. – Honore de Balzac
Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry. – Richard P. Feynman
I love not man the less, but Nature more. – Lord Byron
Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer. – John Keats
Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating. – Karl Von Clausewitz
The world is too much with us late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours. – William Wordsworth
As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power. – Thomas Aquinas
The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. – Thomas Huxley
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations. – Paul Cezanne
I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others. – Sidney Sheldon
Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices. – Jean-Paul Sartre
An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome. – John Ruskin
