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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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Masked, I advance.
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Advance Mask Myself
To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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Action Attention People Think
You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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Ancient Nothing One Liner Philosophy Truth
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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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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Enough Good Mind
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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Forward Masked Myself Spectate Stage Theatre World
Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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Bad Book Habit One Liner
Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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Conquer Inspirational One Liner World Yourself
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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Book Conversation Fine Good Man Past Read
For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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Apply Enough Mind Possess Right Vigorous
Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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Doubt One Liner Origin Philosophy Wisdom
He who hid well, lived well.
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Hid Himself Well
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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Problem Rule Serve Solve
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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Philosophy Power Thought
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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Accustom Awake Dream Imagination Lunatic Myself Philosophy Sleep
To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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Attempt Close Deep Eyes Live Philosophy Truth
Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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Body Different Mind Philosophy Soul
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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Bring Deceive Deep Himself Myself Philosophy Think
Nothing is made from nothing.
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Deep Nothing One Liner Philosophy
At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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Demolition Devote General Myself Opinion Reserve Sincere
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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Alone Certain Deep Detach Exist Myself Philosophy Think Thought
I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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Mathematics Myself
But what then am I? A thing that thinks. What is that? A thing that doubts, understand, affirms, denies, wills, refuses, and that also imagines and senses.
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Affirm Deep Deny Doubt Imagination Myself Refuse Sense Thing Think Understand Will

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