NECESSITY QUOTES II

quotations about necessity


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Necessity is the mistress and guardian of Nature.

LEONARDO DA VINCI
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Necessity knows no law except to conquer.

PUBLILIUS SYRUS

Moral Sayings

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Necessity is the law of time and place.

ANONYMOUS

The Dictionary of Legal Quotations

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A man can no more justly make use of another's necessity to force him to become his vassal by withholding that relief God requires him to afford to the wants of his brother, than he that has more strength can seize upon a weaker, master him to his obedience, and with a dagger at his throat, offer him death or slavery.

JOHN LOCKE

Two Treatises of Government

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Necessity has no law.

FRANÇOIS RABELAIS

Gargantua and Pantagruel

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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.

GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Discours de métaphysique

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The art of our necessities is strange,
That can make vile things precious.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

King Lear

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The law of necessity dispenses with things which otherwise are not lawful to be done.

ANONYMOUS

The Dictionary of Legal Quotations


Necessity has a way of obliterating from our conduct various delicate scruples regarding honor and pride.

WILLIAM FAULKNER

Absalom, Absalom!

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To feel that everything is a necessity is a warning sign that you may be avoiding an uncomfortable reality. The truth is that your necessities are covered, for the most part.

HOLIDAY MATHIS

"Horoscopes by Holiday", Bismarck Tribune, July 27, 2017


No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts. A man's power is hooped in by necessity, which by many experiments, he touches on every side, until he learns its arc.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

The Conduct of Life

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Necessity turns lion into fox.

PERSIAN PROVERB


You fight when the necessity arises -- no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting.

FRANK HERBERT

Dune

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Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

HANNAH ARENDT

The Human Condition

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We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

Imaginary Conversations

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Necessity can make even cowards valiant.

JOSEPH HALL

Contemplations on the Old Testament


Even the gods are unable to contend against necessity.

SIMONIDES

attributed, Day's Collacon


When God will educate a man, he compels him to learn bitter lessons; He sends him to school to the necessities rather than to the graces, that by knowing all suffering he may know also the eternal consolations.

CELIA BURLEIGH

attributed, Holy Thoughts on Holy Things


Now sit we close about this taper here,
And call in question our necessities.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Julius Caesar

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Necessity seeks bread where it is to be found.

SALIS

attributed, Day's Collacon