These long chains of perfectly simple and easy reasonings by means of which geometers are accustomed to carry out their most difficult demonstrations had led me to fancy that everything that can fall under human knowledge forms a similar sequence; and that so long as we avoid accepting as true what is not so, and always preserve the right order of deduction of one thing from another, there can be nothing too remote to be reached in the end, or to well hidden to be discovered.
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Wells
In philosophy, when we
In philosophy, when we make use of false principles, we depart the farther from the knowledge of truth and wisdom exactly in proportion to the care with which we cultivate them, and apply ourselves to the deduction of diverse consequences from them, thinking that we are philosophizing well, while we are only departing the farther from the truth; from which it must be inferred that they who have learned the least of all that has been hitherto distinguished by the name of philosophy are the most fitted for the apprehension of truth.
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Your joy is your
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.
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I desire to live
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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We never understand a
We never understand a thing so well,and make it our own, as when we have discovered it for ourselves.
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He who hid well,
He who hid well, lived well.
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Common sense is the
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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The greatest minds are
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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He lives well who
He lives well who is well hidden.
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It is not enough
It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
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