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 Omission to do what is necessary
 Seals a commission to a blank of danger;
  And danger, like read more 
 Omission to do what is necessary
 Seals a commission to a blank of danger;
  And danger, like an ague, subtly taints
   Even then when we sit idly in the sun. 
 It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or 
whether I am serious, just read more 
 It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or 
whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know 
it myself. 
 Stern is the visage of necessity.
 [Ger., Ernst ist der Anblick der Nothwendigkeit.]  
 Stern is the visage of necessity.
 [Ger., Ernst ist der Anblick der Nothwendigkeit.] 
Without death and decay, how could life go on?
Without death and decay, how could life go on?
 He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell.
 [Lat., Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem.]  
 He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell.
 [Lat., Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem.] 
 Thanne is it wysdom, as thynketh me,
 To maken vertu of necessite,
  And take it weel, that read more 
 Thanne is it wysdom, as thynketh me,
 To maken vertu of necessite,
  And take it weel, that we may not eschu,
   And namely that that to us alle is due. 
Necessity is stronger far than art.
Necessity is stronger far than art.
 It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to 
live in necessity.
 [Lat., Malum read more 
 It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to 
live in necessity.
 [Lat., Malum est necessitati vivere; sed in necessitate vivere 
necessitas nulla est.] 
Necessity never made a good bargain
Necessity never made a good bargain