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Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.


Aristotle


#allow #base #belongs #both #does

To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself.


Mary Astell


#always #another #expects #himself #his

It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England, may be attributed to the system of education we pursue.


Charles Babbage


#education #england #may #neglect #portion

Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.


Henri Bergson


#creature #endowed #existence #homo #homo sapiens

One thing a lyricist must learn is not to fall in love with his own lines. Once you learn that, you can walk away from the lyric and look at it with a reasonable degree of objectivity.


Hal David


#degree #fall #his #learn #lines

We are more likely to cheat if we see others doing so. We tend to conform to accepted norms of reasonable behaviour, rather than adhere to strict rules.


Evan Davis


#adhere #behaviour #cheat #conform #doing

He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.


John Donne


#creature #eyes #god #himself #his

I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.


Clint Eastwood


#i #i tried #like #reasonable #tried

You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.


Charlotte Bronte


#born #fasten #feebleness #had #instead

I put on such a good show, the story is outrageous, and people don't want to hear that I'm basically a reasonable human being. As long as it continues to get me print, I'll continue to perform in an exuberant manner.


James Ellroy


#being #continue #continues #exuberant #get






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