Conquer Yourself Rather Than The World.

But I Cannot Forget That, At Other Times I Have Been Deceived In Sleep By Similar Illusions; And, Attentively Considering Those Cases, I Perceive So Clearly That There Exist No Certain Marks By Which The State Of Waking Can Ever Be Distinguished From Sleep, That I Feel Greatly Astonished; And In Amazement I Almost Persuade Myself That I Am Now Dreaming.

I Concluded That I Might Take As A General Rule The Principle That All Things Which We Very Clearly And Obviously Conceive Are True: Only Observing, However, That There Is Some Difficulty In Rightly Determining The Objects Which We Distinctly Conceive.

Let Whoever Can Do So Deceive Me, He Will Never Bring It About That I Am Nothing, So Long As I Continue To Think I Am Something.

I Desire To Live In Peace And To Continue The Life I Have Begun Under The Motto 'to Live Well You Must Live Unseen

So Far, I Have Been A Spectator In This Theater Which Is The World, But I Am Now About To Mount The Stage, And I Come Forward Masked.