"It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable"
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"But possibly I am something more than I suppose myself to be."
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"Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow."
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"All is to be doubted."
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"...it is certain that I am really distinct from my body, and can exist without it."
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"When I consider this carefully, I find not a single property which with certainty separates the waking state from the dream. How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?"
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"The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once."
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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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"My third maxim was to try always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and to change my desires rather than the order of the world, and generally to accustom myself to believing that there is nothing entirely in our power except our thoughts, so that after we have done our best regarding things external to us, everything in which we do not succeed is for us absolutely impossible."
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"I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen"
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"Intuitive knowledge is an illumination of the soul, whereby it beholds in the light of God those things which it pleases Him to reveal to us by a direct impression of divine clearness."
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"Nothing comes out of nothing."
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"We never understand a thing so well,and make it our own, as when we have discovered it for ourselves."
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"Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it."
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"He lives well who is well hidden."
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"It's the familiar love-hate syndrome of seduction: "I don't really care what it is I say, I care only that you like it.""
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"In God there is an infinitude of things which I cannot comprehend, nor possibly even reach in any way by thought; for it is the nature of the infinite that my nature, which is finite and limited, should not comprehend it."
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"If ... it is not in my power to arrive at the knowledge of any truth, I may at least do what is in my power, namely, suspend judgement."
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"The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge."
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"The principal effect of the passions is that they incite and persuade the mind to will the events for which they prepared the body."
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