Our natures dovetailed: mutual affection--of the strongest kind--was the result.
And thus they distribute male and female breeders of the best natures according to philosophical rules.
Much depends on the natural bent; some natures incline to the healthy as the plant grows toward the sun.
Then it will be our duty to select, if we can, natures which are fitted for the task of guarding the city?
Then we have found the desired natures; and now that we have found them, how are they to be reared and educated?
A proof of this is that the rays of different stars produce different effects according to the diverse natures of bodies.
The true reproach to which aristocracy and theism are open is the thwarting of those unequal natures and the consequent suffering imposed on them all.
Drinking tempts some men not only by taste, but by the appeal to sociability; to other coarser natures the joys of Bacchus offer the one hope of exhilaration.