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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation

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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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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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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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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things
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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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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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