To live well is to live concealed.
RENE DESCARTESSo 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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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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He who hid well, lived well.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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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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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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