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Quote by Albert Camus
Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature. – Albert Camus

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He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool. – Albert Camus

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Albert Camus
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Nature never did betray the heart that loved her. – William Wordsworth

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We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality. – Abdolkarim Soroush

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The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit. – Aristotle

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Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul. – Ovid

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