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Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.

Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

All men are by nature born equally free and independent.

Nature does nothing in vain.

Nature governs man by no principle more fixed than that which leads him to pursue his interest.