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“An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.”
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“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
“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.”
― Discourse on Method
― Discourse on Method

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