To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
RENE DESCARTESI am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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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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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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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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He who hid well, lived well.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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I think; therefore I am.
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