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

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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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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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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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I think; therefore I am.
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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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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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