In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
RENE DESCARTESIt 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 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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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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The 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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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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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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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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