Reason, however able, cool at best,
Cares not for service, or bat serves when prest,
Stays till we call, and then not often near.
Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise;
His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.
Omnia sunt risus, sunt pulvis, et omnia nil sunt:
Res hominum cunctæ, nam ratione carent.
All is but a jest, all dust, all not worth two peason: For why in man's matters is neither rime nor reason.
Nam et Socrati objiciunt comici, docere eum quomodo pejorem causam meliorem faciat.
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
On aime sans raison, et sans raison l'on hait.
We love without reason, and without reason we hate.
Nihil potest esse diuturnum cui non subest ratio.
Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule.
Id nobis maxime nocet, quod non ad rationis lumen sed ad similitudinem aliorum vivimus.
This is our chief bane, that we live not according to the light of reason, but after the fashion of others.
Every why hath a wherefore.
Comedy of Errors. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 44.
Sure, he that made us with such large discourse,
Looking before and after, gave us not
That capability and god-like reason
To fust in us unus'd.
Give you a reason on compulsion! if reasons
were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give
no man a reason upon compulsion, I.
Good reasons must, of force, give place to better.
But since the affairs of men rest still incertain,
Let's reason with the worst that may befall.
Strong reasons make strong actions.
His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff; you shall seek all day ere you find them; and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
I have no other but a woman's reason
I think him so because I think him so.
While Reason drew the plan, the Heart inform 'd
The moral page and Fancy lent it grace.
Reason progressive, Instinct is complete;
Swift Instinct leaps; slow reason feebly climbs.
Brutes soon their zenith reach. * * * In ages they no more
Could know, do, covet or enjoy.
And what is reason? Be she thus defined:
Reason is upright stature in the soul.
REBELLION
The worst of rebels never arm
To do their king or country harm,
But draw their swords to do them good,
As doctors cure by letting blood.
Men seldom, or rather never for a length of
time and deliberately, rebel against anything
that does not deserve rebelling against.
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
Rebellion in this land shall lose his sway,
Meeting the check of such another day.
Unthread the rude eye of rebellion.
RECKLESSNESS
I tell thee, be not rash; a golden bridge
Is for a flying enemy.
Who falls from all he knows of bliss,
Cares little into what abyss.
I am one, my liege,
Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world
Have so incens'd that I am reckless what
I do to spite the world.
