„Man is not a rational animal; he is a rationalizing animal.“

— Robert A. Heinlein

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„Only to the rational animal is it given to follow voluntarily“
— Marcus Aurelius
„The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.“
— Marcus Aurelius
„This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.“
— George Orwell
„In the constitution of that rational animal I see no virtue which is opposed to justice, but I see a virtue which is opposed to love of pleasure, and that is temperance.“
— Marcus Aurelius