The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
RENE DESCARTESBad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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To live well is to live concealed.
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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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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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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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I think; therefore I am.
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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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To think? That’s it. It is thought. This alone cannot be detached from me. I am, I exist; that is certain.
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