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

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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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But what then am I? A thing that thinks. What is that? A thing that doubts, understand, affirms, denies, wills, refuses, and that also imagines and senses.
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I think; therefore I am.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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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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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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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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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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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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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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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 took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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