Masked, I advance.
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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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Masked, I advance.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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 suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me.
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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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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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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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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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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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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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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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