„Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.“

— Marcus Aurelius
„To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.“
— Marcus Aurelius
„In this age, which believes that there is a short-cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way, in the long run, is the easiest.“
— Henry Miller
„Heroism feels and never reasons and therefore is always right.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
„Every being ought to do that which is according to its constitution; and all other things have been constituted for the sake of the superior, but the rational for the sake of one another.“
— Marcus Aurelius
„But then of course everything always happens for a reason“
— Eminem