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Reason Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.
- The reason we bitterly hate those who deceive us is because they think they are cleverer than we are.
- He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it…
- Coquetry is the essential characteristic, and the prevalent humor of women; but they do not all practice it, because the coquetry of some is restrained…
- Reason alone is insufficient to make us enthusiastic in any matter.
- We frequently do good in order to enable us to do evil later with impunity exemption of punishment.
- The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are…
- The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices… — Lance Armstrong
- I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die. — Isaac Asimov
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- Dealing with global warming doesn't mean we have all got to suddenly stop breathing. Dealing with global warming means that we have… — David Attenborough