It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.
[It., Necessita c'induce, e non diletto.]

It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.
[It., Necessita c'induce, e non diletto.]

My steps have pressed the flowers,
That to the Muses' bowers
The eternal dews of Helicon have read more

My steps have pressed the flowers,
That to the Muses' bowers
The eternal dews of Helicon have given:
And trod the mountain height,
Where Science, young and bright,
Scans with poetic gaze the midnight-heaven.
Yet have I found no power to vie
With thine, severe necessity!

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Art imitates nature, and necessity is the mother of invention.

Art imitates nature, and necessity is the mother of invention.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

To make necessity a virtue (a virtue of necessity).
[Lat., Necessitatem in virtutem commutarum.]

To make necessity a virtue (a virtue of necessity).
[Lat., Necessitatem in virtutem commutarum.]

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.

Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

We do what we must, and call it by the best names.

We do what we must, and call it by the best names.