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Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation
Where violence reigns, reason is weak
Human reason is by nature architectonic
Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason
All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?
Reason does not work instinctively, but requires trial, practice, and instruction in order to gradually progress from one level of insight to another
The soul is cured of its maladies by certain incantations; these incantations are beautiful reasons, from which temperance is generated in souls
We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason; because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages
People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
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On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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