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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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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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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.
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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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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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So far, I have been a spectator in this theatre which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked.
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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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I think; therefore I am.
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Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
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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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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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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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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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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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