Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
RENE DESCARTESThe greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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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 not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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When I turn my mind’s eye upon myself, I understand that I am a thing which is incomplete and dependent on another and which aspires without limit to ever greater and better things…
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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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But what then am I? A thing that thinks. What is that? A thing that doubts, understand, affirms, denies, wills, refuses, and that also imagines and senses.
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I think; therefore I am.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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