National enthusiasm is the great nursery of genius. Tuckermann.
National suffering is, if thou wilt understand the words, verily a judgment of God; it has ever been preceded by national crime. Carlyle.
Nations and empires flourish and decay, / By turns command, and in their turn obey. Dryden, after Ovid.
Nations and men are only the best when they are the gladdest, and deserve heaven when they enjoy it. Jean Paul.
Nations are only transitional forms of humanity; they must undergo obliteration, as do the transitional forms offered by the animal series. There is no more an immortality for them than there is an immobility for an embryo or any one of the manifold forms passed through in its progress of development. Draper.
Nations, like individuals, are born, proceed through a predestined growth, and die. One comes to its end at an early period and in an untimely way; another, not until it has gained maturity. One is cut off by feebleness in its infancy, another is destroyed by civil disease, another commits political suicide, another lingers in old age. But for every one there is an orderly way of progress to its final term, whatever that term may be. Draper.
Natur und Kunst, sie scheinen sich zu fliehen, / Und haben sich, eh' man es denkt, gefunden—Nature and art seem to shun each other, and have met (lit. found each other) ere one is aware. Goethe.
Natura beatis / Omnibus esse dedit, si quis cognoverit uti—Nature has granted to all to be happy, if we but knew how to use her gifts. Claud.
Natura il fece, e poi roppe la stampa—Nature 5 fashioned him, and then broke the mould. Ariost.
Natura ipsa valere, et mentis viribus excitari, et quasi quodam divino spiritu afflari—To be strong by nature, to be urged on by the native powers of the mind, and to be inspired by a divine spirit, as it were. Cic.