"Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature." ― Joseph Addison Topic(s): Nature Tags: inconsistency, mutability, temper More From Joseph Addison "Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both." "Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures." "Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed." More In Nature "Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature."― Baruch Spinoza "Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity."― Xun Zi "It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail."― Vladimir Nabokov