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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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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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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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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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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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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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Masked, I advance.
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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 live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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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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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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