Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
There is a great deal of human nature in man.
Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.
Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
We realise that natural aptitudes are not interchangeable, and each person must, of biological or spiritual necessity, practise the art for which he is fitted.
The desire for freedom and equilibrium (harmony) is inherent in man (due to the universal in him).
Man's nature, originally good and common to all, should develop unhampered.