The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
RENE DESCARTESThe will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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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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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things
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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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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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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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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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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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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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It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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