“Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.”– Wallace Stevens Related Quotes “Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.”– Plato “Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.”– Joseph Butler “Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.”– Niccolo Machiavelli