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The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt

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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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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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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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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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.
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The dreams we imagine when we are asleep should not in any way make us doubt the truth of the thoughts we have when we are awake.
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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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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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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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When I turn my mind’s eye upon myself, I understand that I am a thing which is incomplete and dependent on another and which aspires without limit to ever greater and better things…
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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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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