Art imitates nature, and necessity is the mother of invention.
Richard Franck
Quotes , Source: Northern Memoirs (p. 52)
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To make necessity a virtue (a virtue of necessity).
[Lat., Necessitatem in virtutem commutarum.]
Hadrianus Julius
Quotes , Source: Addition to Adages of Erasmus
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Necessity is the last and strongest weapon.
[Lat., Necessitas ultimum et maximum telum est.]
Titus Livy
Quotes , Source: Annales (IV, 28)
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Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature
requires.
[Lat., Discite quam parvo liceat producere vitam,
Et quantum natura petat.]
Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan)
Quotes , Source: Pharsalia (IV, 377)
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So spake the Fiend, and with necessity,
The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deed.
John Milton
Quotes , Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IV, l. 393)
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My steps have pressed the flowers,
That to the Muses' bowers
The eternal dews of Helicon have given:
And trod the mountain height,
Where Science, young and bright,
Scans with poetic gaze the midnight-heaven.
Yet have I found no power to vie
With thine, severe necessity!
Thomas Love Peacock
Quotes , Source: Necessity
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It is in these useless and superfluous things that I am rich and
happy.
Scopas
Quotes , Source: in Plutarch's "Life of Cato"
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It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to
live in necessity.
[Lat., Malum est necessitati vivere; sed in necessitate vivere
necessitas nulla est.]
Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Quotes , Source: Epistles (58)
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Omission to do what is necessary
Seals a commission to a blank of danger;
And danger, like an ague, subtly taints
Even then when we sit idly in the sun.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The History of Troilus and Cressida (Patroclus at III, iii)
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Now we sit close about this taper here
And call in question our necessities.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Julius Caesar (Brutus at IV, iii)
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No, rather I abjure all roofs, and choose
To wage against the emnity o' th' air,
To be a comrade with the wolf and owl,
Necessity's sharp pinch.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: King Lear (King Lear at II, iv)
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By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.
Thomas Carlyle
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Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
Jean Toomer
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I don't think necessity is the mother of invention -- invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
Agatha Christie
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