Sufficient Reason

Famous quotes containing the words sufficient and/or reason:

    They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
    Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)

    O, reason not the need! our basest beggars
    Are in the poorest thing superfluous.
    Allow not nature more than nature needs,
    Man’s life is cheap as beast’s.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)