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Reason Quotes by Honore de Balzac
- Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better.
- It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than…
- But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.
- Most geometricians, chemists, mathematicians, and great scientists submit religion to reason only to discover a problem as unsolvable as that of squaring a circle.
- Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or…
- It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than…
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- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
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- I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die. — Isaac Asimov
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- 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