nature Quotes

It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.

There is nothing grand or noble in having the use of a slave, in so far as he is a slave; or in issuing commands about necessary things. But it is an error to suppose that every sort of rule... ...

Someone who can be, and therefore is, owned by another, and who understands reason but doesn't fully possess it, is a natural slave.

He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

We, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion.

No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.

Of the irrational part of the soul again one division appears to be common to all living things, and of a vegetative nature.

All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves...

Every formed disposition of the soul realizes its full nature in relation to and dealing with that class of objects by which it is its nature to be corrupted or improved.

The light of the day is followed by night, as a shadow follows a body.