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 DESCARTESThe greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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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…
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The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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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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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 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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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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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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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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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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