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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.

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

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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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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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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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He who hid well, lived well.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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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To live well is to live concealed.
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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
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