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Natura nihil agit frustra, [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputed Axiome in Philosophy.


Thomas Browne

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Nature does nothing in vain.
ARISTOTLE Unless the Lord keep the city the watchman waketh in vain. [Lat., Nisi Dominus frustra.]
MOTTO Custom is second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo est secunda natura.]
ARISTOTLE Nothing is so swift as calumny; nothing is more easily uttered; nothing more readily received; noth...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Habit is stronger than nature. [Lat., Consuetudo natura potentior est.]
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Nature abhors a vacuum. [Fr., Natura abhorret vacuum.]
FRANCOIS RABELAIS One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and prec...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose. - Sir Th...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE The artist is an interpreter of Nature. People learn to love Nature through pictures. To the artist,...
WILLIAM MORRIS HUNT Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule. [Lat., Nihil potest esse diuturnum cui non subes...
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) It began of nothing and in nothing it ends. [Lat., Et redit in nihilum quod fuit ante nihil.]
CAIUS CORNELIUS GALLUS Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The physician heals, Nature makes well. [Lat., Medicus curat, Natura sanat morbus.]
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dial...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Nothing can be born of nothing, nothing can be resolved into nothing. [Lat., Gigni De nihilo ...
PERSIUS (AULUS PERSIUS FLACCUS) She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING Omnia Mutantur, Nihil Interit. 'Everything changes, but nothing is truly lost.
NEIL GAIMAN Nature does not teach. A true philosophy may sometimes validate an experience of nature; an experien...
C.S. LEWIS Nothing is wasted, nothing is in vain: / The seas roll over but the rocks remain.
A. P. HERBERT They laboriously do nothing. [Lat., Operose nihil agunt.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Omnia mutantur, nihil interit (everything changes, nothing perishes).
OVID The voice is nothing but beaten air. [Lat., Vox nihil aliud quam ictus aer.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Nothing is made in vain, but the fly came near it
MARK TWAIN To have nothing is not poverty. [Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.]
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL Nihil est in intellectu quod non fuit prius in sensu:
Nothing is in the understanding, whi...
JOHN LOCKE Nature does nothing uselessly.
ARISTOTLE Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high position. [Lat., Asperius nihil est humi...
CLAUDIAN (CLAUDIANUS)
The Lilly in a Christal

You have beheld a smiling Rose
When ...
ROBERT HERRICK Þar sem jökulinn ber við loft hættir landið að vera jarðneskt, en jörðin fær hlutdeild í ...
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ORHAN PAMUK Let not one single life have passed in vain. What really matters is who you love and how you love.
OPRAH WINFREY Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. [Lat., Nihil aliud est ebrietas quam voluntaria insa...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. [Lat., Nihil aliud est ebrietas quam voluntaria insa...
SENECA LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Expectations are something which is very strange. The more you expect out of your life or from other...
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HELEN KELLER Nothing is lost when the candle burns. No spiritual effort goes in vain.
SWAMI SIVANANDA One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracte...
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ZORA NEALE HURSTON A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind. [Lat., Medicus nihil aliud est quam animi conso...
PETRONIUS (PETRONIUS ARBITER) Nothing dries sooner than a tear. [Lat., Nihil enim lacryma citius arescit.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Real beauty has no boundaries’.
PRAJAKTA MHADNAK Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
JOSEPH ADDISON Just because you believe something was true in the past does not mean it will be true in the future.
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LEONARDO DA VINCI There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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ALBERT CAMUS Nothing is easy to the unwilling. -Thomas Fuller.
THOMAS FULLER Nothing common can seem worthy of you. [Lat., Nihil vulgare te dignum videri potest.]
AUGUSTUS CAESAR One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracte...
EMILE DURKHEIM Beauty doesn't have to be about anything. What's a vase about? What's a sunset or a flower ab...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny. It's the only one. It's based on thousands of years of huma...
MARK R. LEVIN Nothing is more wretched that the mind of a man conscious of guilt. [Lat., Nihil est miserius qua...
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MARY OLIVER Mankind has two immense problems, they forget to use logic and begin at the root of each trouble.
K.R. ROYAL You love a nothing when you love an ingrate. [Lat., Nihil amas, cum ingratum amas.]
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LEO ROSTEN Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow
BARUCH SPINOZA Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
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HANS JONAS Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON The generality have considered that disease is but a confused and disordered effort in Nature, throw...
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JOHN SELDEN The things i know now, i never knew then. I wish i knew.
SOTONYE ANGA A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.
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HARRY BROWNE Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make ...
HARRY BROWNE The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.
MERRY BROWNE You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to p...
HARRY BROWNE You are where you are today because you've chosen to be there.
HARRY BROWNE Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good cons...
HARRY BROWNE The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.
MARY BROWNE I'm not Amish, but I grew up in that same area of Pennsylvania and became very attracted to the ...
THOM BROWNE The more painful it is, tragically, the more you do learn, though, that's the good part.
SYLVIA BROWNE A ghost is someone who hasn't made it - in other words, who died, and they don't know they&#...
SYLVIA BROWNE Gorillas remind me of my father. He was a very big, physically strong man but also very sensitive.
ANTHONY BROWNE Contrary to all the blather we here about the unique goodness of the American people or our religiou...
HARRY BROWNE The Bill of Rights isn't some legalistic fine print. It was written to make our lives freer, mor...
HARRY BROWNE I do a lot of stuff. I mean, you know, charity work.
SYLVIA BROWNE The first things I remember drawing were battles - big sheets of paper covered in terrible scenes of...
ANTHONY BROWNE The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a care...
HARRY BROWNE Since Brooks Brothers is a 189-year-old company, there are plenty of references and inspirations I c...
THOM BROWNE This is state of the art technology that will put us ahead of most other universities because most o...
ALICIA BROWNE Although it's a new thing for the University, it is really very common.
ALICIA BROWNE For students, it will seem like any other residence hall. They are going to be run by our department...
ALICIA BROWNE The numbers are very good, but they didn't exceed what we expected.
ALICIA BROWNE We expect to be able to accommodate all of the residents who want to remain in Palmer and any women ...
ALICIA BROWNE I do think that the staff in a suite-style residence hall has to take into consideration that helpin...
ALICIA BROWNE We have found that there is no one style of residence hall that is perfect for every student. That's...
ALICIA BROWNE Based on past experience with Bryce Lawn, we should be able to accommodate the students who want to ...
ALICIA BROWNE If you want to live with us, you'll have to have that in.
ALICIA BROWNE Energy costs have increased all over campus since Hurricane Katrina. It affects not only our heating...
ALICIA BROWNE Stories come to me in mysterious ways, more like dreams than reasoned creations.
ANTHONY BROWNE A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, a...
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