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French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist

Because reason…is the only thing that makes us men, and distinguishes us from the beasts, I would prefer to believe that it exists, in its entirety, in each of us…
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Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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 like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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…it is a mark of prudence never to place our complete trust in those who have deceived us even once.
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In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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Traveling is almost like talking with those of other centuries.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto ‘to live well you must live unseen
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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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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Dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum.

(English: “I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am”)
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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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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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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems
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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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Good sense is the most equitably distributed of all things because no matter how much or little a person has, everyone feels so abundantly provided with good sense that he feels no desire for more than he already possesses.
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