It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
RENE DESCARTESDivide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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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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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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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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Masked, I advance.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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