I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me.
RENE DESCARTESBad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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Masked, I advance.
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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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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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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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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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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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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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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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He who hid well, lived well.
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Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.
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