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Without death and decay, how could life go on?
Without death and decay, how could life go on?
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
The art of our necessities is strange, That can make vile things precious.
The art of our necessities is strange, That can make vile things precious.
He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell.
[Lat., Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem.]
He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell.
[Lat., Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem.]
Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two read more
Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.
Our necessities are few but our wants are endless.
Our necessities are few but our wants are endless.
Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man.
[Lat., Efficacior omni arte imminens necessitas.]
Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man.
[Lat., Efficacior omni arte imminens necessitas.]
Make yourself necessary to somebody.
Make yourself necessary to somebody.
It is in these useless and superfluous things that I am rich and
happy.
It is in these useless and superfluous things that I am rich and
happy.
