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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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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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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 the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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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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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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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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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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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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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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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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