I think, therefore I am.

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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

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

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Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

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When any one has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offence cannot reach it.

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

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