Nature & World Sayings
52 sayings found from the Early Modern era from 52 authors
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Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.
I have never chosen a subject from the antique, but always from nature.
I have been a wanderer on the face of the earth.
The sea is vast and full of wonders.
The sea is full of dangers, but also of riches.
The earth is not round as a ball, but pear-shaped.
The natives of New Holland may appear to some to be the most wretched people upon Earth, but in reality they are far happier than we Europeans.
Gold is the blood of the earth, and we are its surgeons.
Gold is the blood of this land, and I will drain it dry.
Bread, or water, or wine, which are the ordinary food and nourishment of the body, yet are not by nature bread, water, or wine, but become so by the application of the mind.
The only method of freeing us from these abstruse questions, is to enquire seriously into the nature of human understanding, and show, from an exact analysis of its powers and capacities, that it is by no means fitted for such remote and abstruse sub…
In overthrowing me, you have cut down in Saint Domingue only the trunk of the tree of liberty. It will spring up again by the roots for they are numerous and deep.