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Geoffrey Chaucer
Thanne is it wysdom, as thynketh me, To maken vertu of necessite, And take it weel, that we may not eschu, And namely that that to us alle is due.
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Hadrianus Julius
To make necessity a virtue (a virtue of necessity). [Lat., Necessitatem in virtutem commutarum.]
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John Milton
So spake the Fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deed.
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Jonathan Schattke
Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true -- but it's father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife.
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Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan)
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.]
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Oliver Cromwell
Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities, are the greatest cozenage men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretences to break known rules by.
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Oliver Cromwell
It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.
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Oliver Cromwell
It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
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Richard Franck
Art imitates nature, and necessity is the mother of invention.
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Scopas
It is in these useless and superfluous things that I am rich and happy.
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Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
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.]
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Thomas Love Peacock
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!
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