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The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts.
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I preferred the weapons of dialectic to all the other teachings of philosophy, and armed with these, I chose the conflicts of…
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The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning…
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It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.
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Alone thou goest forth, O Lord, in sacrifice to die; is this thy sorrow naught to us who pass unheeding by? Our…
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By doubting we come to questioning, and by questioning we perceive the truth,
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Nothing can be believed unless it is first understood; and that for any one to preach to others that which either he…
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In fact we say that an intention is good, that is, right in itself, but that an action does not bear any…
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To speak algebraically, Mr. M. is execrable, but Mr. G. is (x + 1)- ecrable.
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