Nature.

Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature.

02c. 150 AD

All that is harmony for thee, O Universe, is in harmony with me as well. Nothing that comes at the right time for thee is too early or too late for me. Everything is fruit to me that thy seasons bring, O Nature. All things come of thee, have their being in thee, and return to thee.

03c. 150 AD

Observe always that everything is the result of a change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and to make new ones like them.

04c. 150 AD

Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.

05c. 150 AD

The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works.

06c. 150 AD

To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.

07c. 150 AD

The nature of the universe is the nature of things that are. Now, things that are have kinship with things that are from the beginning. Further, this nature is styled Truth; and it is the first cause of all that is true.

08c. 150 AD

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favour; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

09c. 150 AD

No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.

10c. 150 AD

Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.

11c. 200 AD

Athenæus / quote

The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom.

12c. 1562 AD

'T is one and the same Nature that rolls on her course, and whoever has sufficiently considered the present state of things might certainly conclude as to both the future and the past.

13c. 1562 AD

Why may not a goose say thus: "All the parts of the universe I have an interest in: the earth serves me to walk upon, the sun to light me; the stars have their influence upon me; I have such an advantage by the winds and such by the waters; there is nothing that yon heavenly roof looks upon so favourably as me. I am the darling of Nature! Is it not man that keeps and serves me?"

14c. 1562 AD

Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.

15c. 1562 AD

Habit is a second nature.

16c. 1562 AD

I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them together.

17c. 1562 AD

Let us a little permit Nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.

18c. 1562 AD

No path of flowers leads to glory.

19c. 1658 AD

J. De La Fontaine / quote

Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

20c. 1642 AD

Blaise Pascal / quote

As for man his days are as grass; as a flower of the field so he flourisheth.

21In print by 1905 AD

Anonymous · Unknown culture / quote

For, lo! the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land.

22In print by 1905 AD

Anonymous · Unknown culture / quote

When I was born I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature, and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do.

23In print by 1905 AD

Anonymous · Unknown culture / quote

April and May are the keys of the year.

24Undated

Traditional · English / proverb

Meaning: The saying treats April and May as decisive months for what the rest of the year will yield. Keys picture their conditions as opening or closing later possibilities.