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Necessity is the argument of tyrants, it is the creed of slaves. - William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. - William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, Speeches--The India Bill Even God is said to be unable to use force against necessity. - Plato (originally Aristocles} There is nothing more friendly than a friend in need. [Lat., Nihil homini amico est opportuno amicius.] - Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus) He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell. [Lat., Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem.] - Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus), Curculio (I, 1, 55) Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune. - Francis Quarles Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man. [Lat., Efficacior omni arte imminens necessitas.] - Quintus Curtius Rufus (Curtis Rufus Quintus), De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni (IV, 3, 23) Necessity makes even the timid brave. [Lat., Necessitas etiam timidos fortes facit.] - Sallust (Caius Sallustius Crispus), Catilina (58) Stern is the visage of necessity. [Ger., Ernst ist der Anblick der Nothwendigkeit.] - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, Wallenstein's Tod (I, 4, 45) It is in these useless and superfluous things that I am rich and happy. - Scopas, in Plutarch's "Life of Cato" Necessity--thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention. - Sir Walter Scott, Peveril of the Peak (heading of ch. XXVI) Necessity is stronger than duty. - 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.] - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Epistles (58) There is no virtue like necessity. - William Shakespeare What fate imposes, men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide. - William Shakespeare Now we sit close about this taper here And call in question our necessities. - William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (Brutus at IV, iii) 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, King Lear (King Lear at II, iv) 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, The History of Troilus and Cressida (Patroclus at III, iii) Teach thy necessity to reason thus: There is no virtue like necessity. - William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (Gaunt at I, iii) Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless. - Henry Wheeler Shaw (used pseudonyms Josh Billings and Uncle Esek) Necessity, thou mother of the world! - Percy Bysshe Shelley Spirit of Nature! all-sufficing Power! Necessity, thou mother of the world! - Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Mab (pt. VI) The argument of the weak. - Richard Brinsley Sheridan Sheer necessity--the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention. - Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Critic (act I, sc. 2) Fear is the underminer of all determinations; and necessity, the victorious rebel of all laws. - Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney) Displaying page 3 of 4 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 [3] 4
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