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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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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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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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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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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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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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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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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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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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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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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