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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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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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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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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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Masked, I advance.
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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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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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