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.

Topic:

Nature,

Author:

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit just as habit is a second nature.

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What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy wasteful blundering low and horribly cruel work of nature!

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