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Foul water will quench fire.
English Proverb
Our necessities never equal our wants
Benjamin Franklin
Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.
Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.
Oscar Wilde
Make yourself necessary to somebody.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.
Elizabeth I
Nature must obey necessity. Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare
Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing?
Thomas Henry Huxley
It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't have to.
Walter Linn
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
William Pitt
Law is mighty, mightier necessity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
Necessity has the face of a dog.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.
Blaise Pascal
The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man.
Aristotle
Necessity knows no law except to conquer.
Publilius Syrus
..men remain in their present low and primitive condition; but if they should feel the influence of the spring of springs arousing them, they would of necessity rise to a higher and more ethereal life.
Henry David Thoreau
The necessary has never been man's top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, man's greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities.
Eric Hoffer
If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.
G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb
