nature Quotes

A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities - a natural defectiveness.

Nature operates in the shortest way possible.

Moral qualities, then, are not given to us by nature or against nature. Nature does prepare us to receive them, but they are fully formed by habit.

Nature always has something amazing in it.

And this lies in the nature of things: What people are potentially is revealed in actuality by what they produce.

Some animals dig in the ground; others don't. Some animals are active at night, like the owl and bat; others are active during the day. There are tame animals and wild animals. Humans and mules are always tame; leopards and... ...

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

Concerning the generation of animals akin to them, as hornets and wasps, the facts in all cases are similar to a certain extent, but are devoid of the extraordinary features which characterize bees; this we should expect, for they have... ...

All are agreed that the various moral qualities are in a sense bestowed by nature: we are just, and capable of temperance, and brave, and possessed of the other virtues from the moment of our birth. But nevertheless we expect... ...

All human actions are caused by one or more of these seven things: chance, nature, force, habit, reason, strong emotion, or desire.