He who hid well, lived well.
RENE DESCARTESIt is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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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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I think; therefore I am.
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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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Masked, I advance.
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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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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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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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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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