Nature
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3.The universal nature and the Stoic doctrine of living according to nature
3a.Living conformably to nature as the end of man
See also: Duty 1d
Epictetus, The Golden Sayings of EpictetusVol. 2
- p. 120–121Man should live in harmony with nature and go beyond where nature leaves off in us.read · scan
- p. 135Which external things are natural or contrary to nature depends on viewing a thing alone or as part of a whole.read · scan
- p. 149Nature designed us to be constant to her path; pleasure is her handmaid.read · scan
- p. 177–178The aim is to understand Nature and follow her.read · scan
Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations of Marcus AureliusVol. 2
- p. 194The idea of living conformably to nature.read · scan
- p. 198Received clear impressions about living according to nature, though he falls short through his own fault.read · scan
- p. 201Remember the nature of the whole and one's own as a part, and act according to it.read · scan
- p. 220–221Pass life conformably to nature and end content like a ripe olive.read · scan
- p. 221–222Follow the short way of nature and soundest reason, which frees from trouble and ostentation.read · scan
- p. 222Nature fixed bounds to eating, drinking and rest; loving oneself means loving one's nature.read · scan
- p. 222Follow thy own nature and the common nature; the way of both is one.read · scan
- p. 225Be content if most of one's acts accord with man's nature.read · scan
- p. 242–243Live according to the reason of your own nature; nothing contrary to universal nature will befall you.read · scan
- p. 253Acting according to nature is useful; the universe is either continuous consequence or not governed by reason.read · scan
- p. 258See each thing's nature and use it by its value.read · scan
- p. 274–275Do what nature requires, as a living being and as rational animal, provided nature is not made worse.read · scan
- p. 279Let men see a real man who lives according to nature.read · scan
- p. 282A man should count as enjoyment whatever he can do according to his own nature, which is possible everywhere.read · scan
- p. 288Be satisfied with what suits the nature of the universe and one's own nature.read · scan
- p. 294Living according to nature makes a man worthy of the universe that produced him.read · scan
Sir Thomas More, UtopiaVol. 36
- p. 194–196To follow nature is to be ruled by reason in desiring and refusing things.read · scan
William Penn, Some Fruits of SolitudeVol. 1
- p. 322We should study nature and act according to her few, plain, reasonable rules.read · scan
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in FranceVol. 24
- p. 334–335Duty is a weak reliance when one pits nature against it; legislators must conform to nature and circumstances.read · scan
George Long, The Philosophy of AntoninusVol. 2
- p. 337–338The end of philosophy is to live conformably to one's own and universal nature, acting by reason.read · scan
- p. 344–345The end of man is to live conformably to nature.read · scan
Thomas Henry Huxley, Science and CultureVol. 28
- p. 222–223Social arrangements express natural laws and are permanent only if they harmonize with them.read · scan
3b.Whatever happens is according to nature and is good for the whole
See also: Life and Death 3b · Opinion 3a · Change 3a · Pleasure and Pain 6a
Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Old AgeVol. 9
- p. 46–47The wise man follows Nature as a guide; old age is a natural, inevitable last act, and rebelling is like the giants fighting the gods.read · scan
- p. 56Life's course is fixed by nature; each age has its own seasonable advantage and should be enjoyed without wishing it back.read · scan
- p. 70All that accords with nature is good; death in old age is natural.read · scan
- p. 74Nature has given us a place of entertainment, not residence.read · scan
- p. 75–76Nature puts a limit to living as to everything else.read · scan
Epictetus, The Golden Sayings of EpictetusVol. 2
- p. 164Natural processes are a fixed administration, not evil.read · scan
Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations of Marcus AureliusVol. 2
- p. 200What the nature of the whole brings is good for each part; the universe is preserved by change.read · scan
- p. 202Death is an operation of nature.read · scan
- p. 203–204To be vexed at anything is a separation from nature.read · scan
- p. 204–205Accept all that happens as according to nature; nothing according to nature is evil.read · scan
- p. 205One with deeper insight into the universe finds its consequences pleasing.read · scan
- p. 211The ruling part, when according to nature, adapts to whatever happens.read · scan
- p. 213Death accords with the reasonable animal's constitution.read · scan
- p. 217Displeasure at events rejects the common nature that produced both events and thee.read · scan
- p. 219What befalls those living according to and against nature alike is neither natural nor unnatural.read · scan
- p. 219Disease, death and treachery are as familiar as spring's rose and summer's fruit.read · scan
- p. 223Man returns to the earth and elements that supplied him.read · scan
- p. 225–226Nothing happens that is not conformable to the nature of the universe.read · scan
- p. 229I have and do what universal nature wills; another's wrong is his own affair.read · scan
- p. 232Universe's substance is compliant; the reason governing it has no malice and all things are perfected by it.read · scan
- p. 232–233Every thing is accomplished in conformity with the nature of the universe, no other.read · scan
- p. 241What happens to each man serves the interest of the universal whole.read · scan
- p. 246A scowl is unnatural and contrary to reason; nature governing the whole will change all things.read · scan
- p. 256As fig-trees bear figs, the world produces what it does; surprise is shameful.read · scan
- p. 259As universal nature turns opposition into part of itself, the rational being can make hindrances its material.read · scan
- p. 261Each thing suffers only what is natural to it; the common nature brings nothing unbearable.read · scan
- p. 262Universal nature wastes nothing, changing what decays into new things; complaining of bitter or thorny things shows ignorance of nature.read · scan
- p. 265Death is willed by nature like all life's seasons and should be accepted as such.read · scan
- p. 271Universal nature delights in change.read · scan
- p. 275Whatever happens is either bearable by one's nature or perishes after consuming one; man is formed to bear everything.read · scan
- p. 276Nature would not design evil for her own parts nor do it unknowingly.read · scan
- p. 276Change is in accord with nature, whether called nature or natural.read · scan
- p. 279The instructed and modest man tells nature to give and take back what she will, obediently and content.read · scan
- p. 279–280What universal nature brings to each is for its good at the time it brings it.read · scan
- p. 284Nature united us to men and now dissolves the union; separation is natural.read · scan
- p. 286Events on the stage and in life happen according to nature and must be accepted.read · scan
- p. 292Parts obey the universe's disposition; mind alone rebels though asked only what is conformable to its nature.read · scan
- p. 296If it were according to nature, nature would have had it so.read · scan
- p. 298Universal nature fixes the limit; what benefits the whole is good.read · scan
- p. 299All things happen according to universal nature; troubles come from forgetting this.read · scan
- p. 300–301Act as nature leads and endure what common nature brings.read · scan
- p. 301Nature, not a tyrant or unjust judge, sends man from life.read · scan
Michel de Montaigne, That to Philosophise Is to Learne How to DieVol. 32
- p. 22Nature bids us leave the world as we entered it; death is a piece of the world's order.read · scan
- p. 26Nature as universal mother teaches that life and death are indifferent; every day marches toward death.read · scan
George Long, The Philosophy of AntoninusVol. 2
- p. 334–336Holds there is a Nature or fixed order in all things; universal Nature has a cause, and evil is no part of the constitution of things.read · scan
3c.Man's social nature and the duty of mutual help
Marcus Tullius Cicero, On FriendshipVol. 9
- p. 15–16Nature ties all men together, more strongly with proximity; friendship is more concentrated than natural kinship.read · scan
Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations of Marcus AureliusVol. 2
- p. 199Men are made for co-operation like hands and feet; acting against one another is contrary to nature.read · scan
- p. 238Each part acts according to its nature, hand and foot alike.read · scan
- p. 254–255Each nature is part of the common nature; man's part is intelligent and just.read · scan
- p. 255–256Rising to social acts accords with human nature; sleep is common to irrational animals.read · scan
- p. 264Universal nature wills mutual help among rational animals; transgressing it is impious.read · scan
- p. 264Those who follow nature should share its mind toward things it treats equally.read · scan
- p. 267Things sharing a common nature move toward their kind; intelligent nature, being superior, mingles with its kin all the more readily.read · scan
- p. 273Nature supplies an antidote for each kind of wrongdoer.read · scan
- p. 273Man is formed by nature for benevolence and the common interest, acting according to his constitution like bodily members.read · scan
- p. 290We are constituted by nature for something else than harming one another.read · scan
Sir Thomas More, UtopiaVol. 36
- p. 196Nature moves men to help one another live merrily and commands that one not harm others in seeking one's own.read · scan
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in FranceVol. 24
- p. 232Disobeying the compact breaks the law and disobeys nature, casting rebels into a world of discord.read · scan
George Long, The Philosophy of AntoninusVol. 2
- p. 340What is useful is conformable to one's rational and social nature; one's city is Rome, as a man the world.read · scan
3d.The rational part and the higher ordering of lesser things
Epictetus, The Golden Sayings of EpictetusVol. 2
- p. 151–152The ruling faculty should remain as Nature would have it.read · scan
Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations of Marcus AureliusVol. 2
- p. 230The universe's intelligence is social, subordinating inferior things to superior and bringing the best into concord.read · scan
- p. 244For the rational animal the same act accords with nature and with reason.read · scan
- p. 249–250Follow what universal nature and one's own nature lead to; lesser things exist for the sake of the higher, rational for one another.read · scan
- p. 269Discontent with the ruling faculty doing what nature made it to do causes endless trouble.read · scan
- p. 287–288Universal nature, most perfect of natures, orders inferior things for the sake of the superior.read · scan
- p. 289Rejoice in what accords with nature and seek what conforms to your nature; nature orders all things, the inferior for the superior.read · scan
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