It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
RENE DESCARTESIt is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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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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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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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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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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I think; therefore I am.
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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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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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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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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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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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To live well is to live concealed.
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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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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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