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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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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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I think; therefore I am.
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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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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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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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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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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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