Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes, Faults Quotes, Reason Quotes

A commander-in-chief cannot take as an excuse for his mistakes in warfare an order given by his sovereign or his minister when the person giving the order is absent from the field of operations and is imperfectly aware or wholly unaware of the latest state of affairs. It follows that any commander-in-chief who undertakes to carry out a plan which he considers defective is at fault; he must put forward his reasons, insist on the plan being changed, and finally tender his resignation rather than be the instrument of his army's downfall.

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It is impossible to get anywhere without sinning against reason.

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He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

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Reason flies When following the senses, on clipped wings.

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If something's bound to happen, it will happen.. Right time, right person, and for the best reason.

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You will be right, over the course of many transactions, if your hypotheses are correct, your facts are correct, and your reasoning is correct. True conservatism is only possible through knowledge and reason.

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Passion makes the will lord of the reason.

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It is the triumph of superior reason to live with folks who don't have any.

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Are these things good for any other reason except that they end in pleasure, and get rid of and avert pain? Are you looking to any other standard but pleasure and pain when you call them good?

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That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.

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The expedition of my violent love outrun the pauser, reason.

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The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks.

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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone

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You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away.

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Have I not reason to lament What man has made of man?

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Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.

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I think there's every reason this 21st century will be much happier.

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But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, 4 to perplex and dash Maturest counsels.

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Hillary Clinton has been in politics for the same reason I am - because we can improve other people's lives by doing this work.

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For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.

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