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The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
He who can be, and therefore is, another’s, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.
Nature does nothing in vain.
All men by nature desire knowledge.
Man is by nature a political animal.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.