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Good sense is, of all

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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I think; therefore I am.

I think; therefore I am.
👁️ 90

If you would be a

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.
👁️ 111

The first precept was never

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

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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In order to improve the

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.
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It is only prudent never

It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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Cogito ergo sum.

Cogito ergo sum.
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The reading of all good

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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Your joy is your sorrow

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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