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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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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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To live well is to live concealed.
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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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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve 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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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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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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So far, I have been a spectator in this theatre which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked.
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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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