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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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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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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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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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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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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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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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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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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