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human nature

Noun

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the shared psychological attributes of humankind that are assumed to be shared by all human beings

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...there is nothing that has been created without some reason, even if human nature is incapable of knowing precisely the reason for them all. John Chrysostom

And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature. John Chrysostom

I think computer viruses should count as life ... I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. Stephen Hawking

Virtue is achieved by its seekers not without a struggle; nor is abstinence from the paths of pleasure a painless process to human nature. Gregory of Nyssa

Human nature is the same all the world over. American Proverb

Human nature is the same all the world over. Albanian Proverb

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