Necessity knows no law except to prevail.

Nihil aliud scit necessitas quam vincere.

Publilius Syrus

Sententiae

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Necessity Desperation Moral theory

Author

Publilius Syrus

Source

Sententiae

Medium

Epigram

Language

Latin

Time

43 BC 40s BC 1st century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Occupation

Writer

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Turkey Europe

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Citation

Publilius Syrus. Sententiae. c. 1st century BC.

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All inequality that has no special utility to justify it is injustice.

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Moral theory Economic inequality Inequality

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Jeremy Bentham
Language
English
Time
1795 1790s 18th century
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Original Citation

Bentham, Jeremy. Supply Without Burthen; or Escheat Vice Taxation. London: J. Debrett, 1795.

Current Citation

Bentham, Jeremy. "Supply Without Burthen; or Escheat Vice Taxation." Jeremy Bentham's Economic Writings, edited by Werner Stark. Vol. 1, Routledge, 2003.

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And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:21

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Nature of the world Creation of the world Creation The world
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Genesis The Bible
Medium
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Genre
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Language
Hebrew
Time
1405 BC 1400s BC 15th century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
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Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Genesis 1:21).

Another quote originally in Latin

The alteration of motion is ever proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.

Isaac Newton

Principia

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Newton's laws of motion Laws of physics

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Isaac Newton
Source
Principia
Genre
Scientific literature
Language
Latin
Time
1687 1680s 17th century
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Original Citation

Newton, Isaac. "Axiomata sive Leges Motus: [Axioms, or Laws of Motion]." Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica [The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy], vol. 1. London: Josephi Streater, 1687, law 2.

Current Citation

Newton, Isaac. "Axioms, or the Laws of Motion." The Principia, translated by Andrew Motte. Prometheus, 1995, law 2.