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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.

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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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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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I had become aware, as early as my college days, that no opinion, however absurd and incredible can be imagined, that has not been held by one of the philosophers.
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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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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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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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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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