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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.

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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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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve 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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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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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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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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