Jean-Jacques Rousseau on nature

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say and to finish without knowing what you have written.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Every day, man is making bigger and better fool-proof things, and every day, nature is making bigger and better fools. So far, I think nature is winning.

Albert Einstein1879–1955

Nature does nothing uselessly.

Aristotle384–322 BCPolitics, Book I, 1253a.8

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

Baltasar Gracián1601–1658

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