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reasonable

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1. reasonable - Noun

2. reasonable - Adjective

4. reasonable - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Having the faculty of reason; endued with reason; rational; as, a reasonable being.

Governed by reason; being under the influence of reason; thinking, speaking, or acting rationally, or according to the dictates of reason; agreeable to reason; just; rational; as, the measure must satisfy all reasonable men.

Not excessive or immoderate; within due limits; proper; as, a reasonable demand, amount, price.

Reasonably; tolerably.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. Marcus Aurelius

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. George Bernard Shaw

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. Norman Vincent Peale

There is no reason for war that reasonable men can't settle. Armenian Proverb

Wisdom is what makes a poor man a king, a weak person powerful, a good generation of a bad one, a foolish man reasonable. Irish Proverb

When force and reason are in conflict, force of reason prevails and being reasonable isn't enough. Corsican Proverb

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