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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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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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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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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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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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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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