All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
RENE DESCARTESOne should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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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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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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To think? That’s it. It is thought. This alone cannot be detached from me. I am, I exist; that is certain.
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I think; therefore I am.
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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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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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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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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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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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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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Masked, I advance.
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