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Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one
Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.
Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.
Eloquence may set fire to reason.
Eloquence may set fire to reason.
But it is not reason that governs love.
[Fr., Mais la raison n'est pas ce qui regle l'amour.]
But it is not reason that governs love.
[Fr., Mais la raison n'est pas ce qui regle l'amour.]
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear
the better reason.
[Lat., Nam et Socrati objiciunt read more
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear
the better reason.
[Lat., Nam et Socrati objiciunt comici, docere eum quomodo
pejorem causam meliorem faciat.]
"I can't" isn't a reason to give up, it's a reason to try harder
"I can't" isn't a reason to give up, it's a reason to try harder
The reasoning of the strongest is always the best.
[Fr., La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure.]
The reasoning of the strongest is always the best.
[Fr., La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure.]
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that
his reason is weak.
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that
his reason is weak.
Two angels guide
The path of man, both aged and yet young.
As angels are, ripening through read more
Two angels guide
The path of man, both aged and yet young.
As angels are, ripening through endless years,
On one he leans: some call her Memory,
And some Tradition; and her voice is sweet,
With deep mysterious accords: the other,
Floating above, holds down a lamp with streams
A light divine and searching on the earth,
Compelling eyes and footsteps. Memory yields,
Yet clings with loving check, and shines anew,
Reflecting all the rays of that bright lamp
Our angel Reason holds. We had not walked
But for Tradition; we walk evermore
To higher paths by brightening Reason's lamp.