Man S Nature Quotes

“... man by nature is not a wild or unsocial creature, neither was he born so, but makes himself what he naturally is not, by vicious habit; and that again on the other side, he is civilized and grows gentle by a change of place, occupation, and manner of life, as beasts themselves that are wild by nature, become tame and tractable by housing and gentler usage...”
― Plutarch, Plutarch's Lives: Volume II

“One has to live a long time to know a man’s true nature.”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“We don't like the dog acting like a cat; we don't like the cat acting like a dog either! First of all, everyone and everything should behave according to their nature so that we know who is who and what is what!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“All men are brutes.”
― Beatriz Williams, The Secret Life of Violet Grant