To live well is to live concealed.
RENE DESCARTESThere is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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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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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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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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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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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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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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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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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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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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