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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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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 first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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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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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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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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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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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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