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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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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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Destruction Edifice Foundation Necessary
That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things
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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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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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Discover Man Nation Philosophy Truth
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
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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Hid Himself Well
When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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Conquer Inspirational One Liner World Yourself
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

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