Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
RENE DESCARTESIt is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me.
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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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So far, I have been a spectator in this theatre which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked.
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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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I think; therefore I am.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than the increasing discovery of my own ignorance
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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I had become aware, as early as my college days, that no opinion, however absurd and incredible can be imagined, that has not been held by one of the philosophers.
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Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
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