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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
Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it
All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling
To abstain that we may enjoy is the epicurianism of reason
Reason deceives us often; conscience never
The will of man is by his reason swayed
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason
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