„[A]ll things as subsist from nature appear to contain in themselves a principle of motion and permanency; some according to place, others according to increase and diminuation; and others according to change in quality.“

— Aristotle

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„According to one mode… nature is thus denominated, viz. the first subject matter to every thing which contains in itself the principle of motion and mutation. But after another mode it is denominated form, which subsists according to definition: for as art is called that which subsists according to art, and that which is artificial; so likewise nature is both called that which is according to nature, and that which is natural. …that which is composed from these is not nature, but consists from nature; as, for instance, man. And this is nature in a greater degree than matter: for every thing is then said to be, when it is form in energy… entelecheia, rather than when it is incapacity.“
— Aristotle
„The end may be defined as life in accordance with nature or, in other words, in accordance with our own human nature as well as that of the universe.“
— Zeno of Citium
„To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.“
— Marcus Aurelius
„The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.“
— Flannery O’Connor
„The superior man governs men, according to their nature, with what is proper to them, and as soon as they change what is wrong, he stops.“
— Confucius