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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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Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.
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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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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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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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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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The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
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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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I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
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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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.
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