For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
RENE DESCARTESCommon 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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To live well is to live concealed.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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I think; therefore I am.
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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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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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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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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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