You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.
You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason – if you pick the proper postulates.
Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.
When you’re a god, you don’t have to have reasons.
True virtue is nothing else but living in accordance with reason.
To live in order to reason or to reason in order to live; there is the question.
There is one thing no man can do, and that is to get a woman to listen to reason. Somehow or other, they don’t seem to have any kind of sense.
There is more reason in your body than in your best wisdom.[Es ist mehr Vernunft in deinem Leibe, als in deiner besten Weisheit.]
There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
The world of reason is to be regarded as a great and immortal being, who ceaselessly works out what is necessary, and so makes himself lord also over what is accidental.
The Way to see by Faith, is to shut the Eye of Reason: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your Candle.
The rebel does not ask for life, but for reasons for living.[Le révolté ne demande pas la vie, mais les raisons de la vie.]
