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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.

Maximilien Robespierre

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

Variant translation: The seeker after truth must, once in the course of his life, doubt everything, as far as is possible.

René Descartes

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If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.

I have a heart with room for every joy.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive.

A great change in life is like a cold bath in winter — we all hesitate at the first plunge.

If you want work well done, select a busy man‚ the other kind has no time.

The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.