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There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.
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I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.
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Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellencies, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations
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The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellencies, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations.
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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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One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.
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Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense - no one needs more of it than one already has
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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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I know not if I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or if I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
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I concluded that I might take as a general rule the principle that all things which we very clearly and obviously conceive are true: only observing, however, that there is some difficulty in rightly determining the objects which we distinctly conceive.
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I am a thing that thinks, that is to say, a thing that doubts, affrims, denies, understands a few things, is ignorant of many things, wills, refrains from willing, and also imagines and senses
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Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess.
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Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed: for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess.
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Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for everyone thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even that those who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger meas
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
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The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.
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