If there's any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think. Seagull
"Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today” 12 Rules For Life: An Antidote To Chaos
O! I am Fortune's fool. Romeo and Juliet
To judge the appearances we receive of things, we should need a judicatory instrument; to verify this instrument, we should need a demonstration; to rectify this demonstration, we should need an instrument: so here we are arguing in a circle. Seeing the senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason; there is no reason but must be built upon another reason, so here we are retreating backwards to all eternity. Essays
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