When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.
I will it, I order it, let my will stand for a reason.
This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason
In their palate alone is their reason of existence. [Lat., In solo vivendi causa palata est.]
Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.