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Reason Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
- The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
- He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
- Reason should direct, and appetite obey.
- Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.
- For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the…
- For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died,…
- Let your desires be ruled by reason.
- Let reason govern desire.
- A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not…
- True law is right reason in agreement with nature;...it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions...It is a sin…
- God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice.
- The mind becomes accustomed to things by the habitual sight of them, and neither wonders nor inquires about the reasons for things it sees all…
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