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"When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws."

Nicolas Chamfort on Nature

More quotes about Nature

  • "Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises."

    Pedro Calderon de la Barca on Nature

  • "And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

    Anais Nin on Nature

  • "Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."

    Albert Einstein on Nature

  • "I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes."

    e. e. cummings on Nature

  • "All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind."

    Abraham Lincoln on Nature

More quotes by Nicolas Chamfort

  • "Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life."

  • "It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful."

  • "The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society."

  • "Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all."

  • "Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich."

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