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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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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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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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It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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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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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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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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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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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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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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I think; therefore I am.
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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 first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
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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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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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