Sentence examples for nothing vain from inspiring English sources

"They were gracious people," he writes, "and my envy would wriggle through their good humor like a snake in the garden and, finding nothing vain to attack, would turn back and bite itself in bitterness".

But anyone who has actually worked it, meaning gotten a good book out, taking the time to find the exact right cover and then putting their heart and soul into marketing knows that there's nothing vain about this process.

There is nothing vain or wrong about thinking of yourself.

There is nothing vain about it when you're doing it for yourself.

To this purpose the philosophers say that Nature does nothing in vain, and more is in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity, and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes".

All the rest was nothing, in vain".

Some will see in the natural world a divine creation, and the Lord of Life who makes nothing in vain.

He holds further that nature does nothing in vain.

She argues that he would not, for God does nothing in vain, thus he would not create something only to annihilate it (Astell 1705, 248 249 [section 257 258]).

Second, human beings are by nature political animals, because nature, which does nothing in vain, has equipped them with speech, which enables them to communicate moral concepts such as justice which are formative of the household and city-state (1253a1-18).

(a) In Aquinas' rendering, it depends on the postulate that "nature does nothing in vain", which in turn depends, according to Aquinas, on the premise that nature is the product of divine creative rationality, a premise which Aquinas himself argues is, though provable, by no means self-evident.