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Si l’on peut me démontrer que mes jugements et mes actes sont mauvais, et m’en convaincre, je changerai volontiers. Je cherche la vérité, et la vérité n’a jamais fait de mal à personne. Ce qui fait du mal, c’est de persister dans son erreur
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“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”
― Essays and Aphorisms
― Essays and Aphorisms
“Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am;" as close an approach to certainty as any philosopher has yet made.”
― The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
― The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”
― Collected Essays
― Collected Essays
“I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
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