“Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.”
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.
There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself in no wise hath she need of an author.
All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.
Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.