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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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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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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 live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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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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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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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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It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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