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

When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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 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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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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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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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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