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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto ‘to live well you must live unseen’.
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But what then am I? A thing that thinks. What is that? A thing that doubts, understand, affirms, denies, wills, refuses, and that also imagines and senses.
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For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than the increasing discovery of my own ignorance
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me.
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To think? That’s it. It is thought. This alone cannot be detached from me. I am, I exist; that is certain.
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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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