- Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win.~ Aeschylus
- Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.~ Neal Cassady
- A wise man never refuses anything to necessity.~ Publilius Syrus
- Boredom, like necessity, is very often the mother of invention.~ Author Unknown
- By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither.~ D. H. Lawrence
- Doubt is a necessity of the mind, faith of the heart.~ Comtesse Diane
- Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind’s throwing? ~ Thomas H. Huxley
- Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are, and not another. You are free to be that man, but not free to be another.~ Antoine De Saint-Exupery
- Free man is by necessity insecure, thinking man by necessity uncertain.~ Erich Fromm
- How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.~ Euripides
- If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
- Imitation is a necessity of human nature.~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.~ Pliny The Elder
- Make a virtue of necessity.~ Geoffrey Chaucer
- Make yourself necessary to somebody.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.~ Hannah Arendt
- Nature must obey necessity.~ William Shakespeare
- Necessity, who is the mother of our invention.~ Plato
- Necessity can break iron.~ Yiddish Proverb
- Necessity can change a lion into a fox.~ Iranian Proverb
- Necessity does everything well.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Necessity has no law.~ Oliver Cromwell
- Necessity has the face of a dog.~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Necessity is a great teacher.~ Italian Proverb
- Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.~ Karl Marx
- Necessity is not an established fact, but rather an interpretation.~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- Necessity is the author of change.~ Tim Hansel
- Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature.~ Leonardo Da Vinci
- Necessity is the mother of attraction.~ Luke McKissack
- Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true — but its father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife.~ Jonathan Schattke
- Necessity is the mother of taking chances.~ Mark Twain
- Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.~ William Pitt Chatham
- Necessity knows no law except to conquer.~ Publilius Syrus
- Necessity makes even the timid brave.~ Sallust
- Necessity never made a good bargain.~ Benjamin Franklin
- Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice.~ Marquis De Vauvenargues
- Necessity requires no decision.~ Traditional Proverb
- Necessity teaches all things.~ German Proverb
- Necessity unites.~ German Proverb
- Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.~ Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
- Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.~ Euripides
- Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain.~ Joseph De Maistre
- Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.~ Lord Byron
- The law of nature is the strictest expression of necessity.~ Author Unknown
- The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.~ Niccolo Machiavelli
- The superfluous is very necessary.~ Voltaire
- To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.~ Goethe
- Truth has beauty, power, and necessity.~ Sylvia Townsend Warner
- Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.~ Miguel De Cervantes
- We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity.~ Albert Camus
- We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.~ Oscar Wilde
- Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do.~ Goethe
- What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity.~ Anthony Crosland
- When necessity speaks, it demands.~ Russian Proverb
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