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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

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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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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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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 took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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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 not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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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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To think? That’s it. It is thought. This alone cannot be detached from me. I am, I exist; that is certain.
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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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