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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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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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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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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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Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
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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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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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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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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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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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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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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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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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I had become aware, as early as my college days, that no opinion, however absurd and incredible can be imagined, that has not been held by one of the philosophers.
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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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