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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

To live well is to live concealed.
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Concealed Live Well
For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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Apply Enough Mind Possess Right Vigorous
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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Problem Rule Serve Solve
To think? That’s it. It is thought. This alone cannot be detached from me. I am, I exist; that is certain.
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Alone Certain Deep Detach Exist Myself Philosophy Think Thought
Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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Deep Myself Offend Offense One Liner Raise Soul Try
Masked, I advance.
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Advance Mask Myself
It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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Complete Confidence Deceive Place Prudent
Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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Doubt One Liner Origin Philosophy Wisdom
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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Philosophy Power Thought
I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto ‘to live well you must live unseen’.
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Desire Life Live Peace Philosophy Well
He who hid well, lived well.
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Hid Himself Well
It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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Common Difficult Fail Fair Mortal
To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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Action Attention People Think
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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Book Conversation Fine Good Man Past Read
Nothing is made from nothing.
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Deep Nothing One Liner Philosophy
I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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Argument Certain Evidence Mathematics Myself Special

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