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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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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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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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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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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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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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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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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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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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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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