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Leonardo da Vinci
Necessity is the mistress and guardian of Nature
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Dante Alighieri
It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us
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Joseph Joubert
Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy
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Napoleon Bonaparte
Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities
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Thomas Fuller
The greatest man living may stand in need of the meanest, as much as the meanest does of him
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Publilius Syrus
Necessity knows no law except to conquer
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Benjamin Franklin
Necessity never made a good bargain
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Benjamin Franklin
Our necessities never equal our wants
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Mark Twain
Necessity is the mother of taking chances
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Friedrich Schiller
Stern is the visage of necessity
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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