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.
RENE DESCARTESOne should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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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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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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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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The dreams we imagine when we are asleep should not in any way make us doubt the truth of the thoughts we have when we are awake.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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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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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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