“You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back.”
Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret.
Epistles (c. 20 BC and 14 BC)
“Though you expel Nature with a pitchfork, she will always return.”
Vergil in Averno (1987)
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Franz Kafka book The Zürau Aphorisms
3 (20 October 1917); as published in The Blue Octavo Notebooks (1954); also in Dearest Father: Stories and Other Writings (1954); variant translations use "cardinal sins" instead of "main human sins" and "laziness" instead of "indolence".
The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)
Context: There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise; it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return.
Oscar Wilde book The Happy Prince and Other Tales
"The Nightingale and the Rose"
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888)
“She made you decent, and in return you made her so happy”
David Nicholls book One Day
Source: One Day
“We are not to tell nature what she’s gotta be. … She's always got better imagination than we have.”
Richard Feynman (1918–1988) American theoretical physicist
Sir Douglas Robb Lectures, University of Auckland (1979); lecture 1, "Photons: Corpuscles of Light" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLQ2atfqk2c&t=48m01s
“Gone for a while
Hoping, always, to return
If you will let me”
Megan McCafferty (1973) American novelist
Source: Perfect Fifths