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I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

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And in this we must for the most part entertain ourselves with ourselves, and so privately that no exotic knowledge or communication be admitted there...more

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Without doubt, it is a delightful harmony when doing and saying go together.

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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

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Did I know myself less, I might perhaps venture to handle something or other to the bottom, and to be deceived in my own inability; but sprinkling her...more

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We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.

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On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

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...were these Essays of mine considerable enough to deserve a critical judgment, it might then, I think, fallout that they would not much take with co...more

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Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.

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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

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Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

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Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.

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Demetrius the grammarian finding in the temple of Delphos a knot of philosophers set chatting together, said to them, “Either I am much deceived,or by...more

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Had I been placed among those nations which are said to live still in the sweet freedom of nature's first laws, I assure you I should very gladly have...more