“Some pious men may find this truth unorthodox and bitter:
But Nature, Chance, and Time ensure survival of the fitter!”
Source: Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009), p. 389
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Attributed to Herer in Blunts' The Quotable Stoner (2011), p. 133.

“Yet such is the order of nature. While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.”
Ita se natura habet, ut amara sit veritas, blanda vitia existimentur.
Letter 40
Letters

(1837 1) (Vol. 49) Three Extracts from the Diary of a Week.
The Monthly Magazine
“People will do amazing things to ensure their survival.”
Source: The Hob's Bargain

“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”

"Jim Bludso", Pike County Ballads http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pike_County_Ballads, (1871).