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…
RENE DESCARTESWhenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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I think; therefore I am.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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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 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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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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Masked, I advance.
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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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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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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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