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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.
Without death and decay, how could life go on?
Without death and decay, how could life go on?
Necessity never made a good bargain
Necessity never made a good bargain
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.
Make yourself necessary to somebody.
Make yourself necessary to somebody.
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.
Stern is the visage of necessity.
[Ger., Ernst ist der Anblick der Nothwendigkeit.]
Stern is the visage of necessity.
[Ger., Ernst ist der Anblick der Nothwendigkeit.]
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.
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.]
