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The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt

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I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto ‘to live well you must live unseen’.
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To think? That’s it. It is thought. This alone cannot be detached from me. I am, I exist; that is certain.
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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 it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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