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John Milton Quotes on Human Nature

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1. “So many laws argues so many sins.”

John Milton

Law, Sin, Morality, Society, Human Nature

2. “Money brings honor, friends, conquest, and realms.”

John Milton

Money, Power, Influence, Wealth, Human Nature

3. “None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.”

John Milton

Freedom, Morality, Virtue, License, Human Nature

4. “Who knows not Circe, The daughter of the Sun, whose charmed cup Whoever tasted, lost his upright shape, And downward fell into a groveling swine?”

John Milton

Mythology, Temptation, Transformation, Magic, Human Nature

5. “Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can.”

John Milton

Humor, Decision-making, Power, Seriousness, Human Nature

6. “All seemed well pleased, all seemed, but were not all.”

John Milton

Appearance, Reality, Deception, Discontent, Human Nature

7. “Th'invention all admir'd, and each, how he to be th'inventor miss'd; so easy it seem'd once found, which yet unfound most would have thought impossible.”

John Milton

Invention, Discovery, Admiration, Human Nature, Creativity

8. “Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possess'd.”

John Milton

Beauty, Forgiveness, Love, Human Nature, Redemption

9. “Nor from hell One step no more than from himself can fly By change of place.”

John Milton

Hell, Self, Escape, Identity, Human Nature

10. “What hath night to do with sleep?”

John Milton

Night, Sleep, Wakefulness, Time, Human Nature

11. “Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death?”

John Milton

Knowledge, Forbidden Fruit, Curiosity, Divine Will, Human Nature

12. “Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.”

John Milton

Revenge, Consequences, Bitterness, Moral Lesson, Human Nature

13. “A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so.”

John Milton

Gratitude, Humanity, Individual Vs Collective, Optimism, Human Nature

14. “For so I created them free and free they must remain.”

John Milton

Free Will, Creation, Divine Plan, Human Nature, Freedom

15. “Fame is the last infirmity of the human mind.”

John Milton

Fame, Human Nature, Vanity, Ambition, Weakness

16. “Vanity is definitely my favorite sin.”

John Milton

Vanity, Sin, Self-love, Temptation, Human Nature

17. “Virtue that wavers is not virtue, but vice revolted from itself, and after a while returning. The actions of just and pious men do not darken in their middle course.”

John Milton

Virtue, Constancy, Moral Strength, Righteousness, Human Nature

18. “Assuredly we bring not innocence not the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.”

John Milton

Innocence, Impurity, Trial, Purification, Human Nature

19. “Wickedness is weakness.”

John Milton

Morality, Strength, Vice, Virtue, Human Nature

20. “Fame, if not double fac'd, is double mouth'd, And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds; On both his wings, one black, the other white, Bears greatest names in his wild aery flight.”

John Milton

Fame, Duality, Reputation, Human Nature, Ambiguity

21. “Laws can discover sin, but not remove it.”

John Milton

Law, Sin, Morality, Human Nature, Societal Limitations

22. “Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void.”

John Milton

Pain, Commitment, Human Nature, Weakness, Vows

23. “Promiscuous reading is necessary to the constituting of human nature. The attempt to keep out evil doctrine by licensing is like the exploit of that gallant man who thought to keep out the crows by shutting the park gate.”

John Milton

Censorship, Knowledge, Human Nature, Freedom Of Thought, Intellectual Growth

24. “On the Morning of Christ's Nativity Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep, was all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep.”

John Milton

Nativity, Simplicity, Love, Pastoral Life, Human Nature

25. “He who tempts, though in vain, at last asperses The tempted with dishonor foul, supposed Not incorruptible of faith, not proof Against temptation.”

John Milton

Temptation, Faith, Corruption, Moral Struggle, Human Nature

26. “God made thee perfect, not immutable.”

John Milton

Divine Creation, Perfection, Change, Human Nature, Free Will

27. “Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell.”

John Milton

Free Will, Choice, Moral Responsibility, Divine Judgment, Human Nature

28. “Ah, why should all mankind For one man's fault, be condemned, If guiltless?”

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Original Sin, Divine Justice, Collective Punishment, Questioning, Human Nature

29. “It is not virtue, wisdom, valour, wit, Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit, That woman's love can win, or long inherit; But what it is, hard is to say, Harder to hit.”

John Milton

Love, Mystery, Human Nature, Attraction, Relationships

30. “Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.”

John Milton

Love, Reconciliation, Relationships, Harmony, Human Nature

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