Nature never said to me: Do not be poor. Still less did she say: Be rich. Her cry to me was always: Be independent. -Nicolas de Chamfort, writer (1741-1794)
I don't think it was nature he heard but rather the spirit of his age, the early days of modernity. By nature we are never independent, but always and necessarily part of various social networks, starting of course with the family.
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