"Where violence reigns, reason is weak." — Nicolas Chamfort

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• All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
• The law is reason, free from passion. — Aristotle
• For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to… — Aristotle
• He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to… — Aristotle
• Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for… — Aristotle
• Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason… — Aristotle
• Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop… — Paul Auster
• The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason… — Billie Joe Armstrong
• For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and… — 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… — Mary Astell
• Dealing with global warming doesn't mean we have all got to suddenly stop breathing. Dealing with global warming means that… — David Attenborough

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