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Everything is self-evident.
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Self
In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.
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Mind
Order
Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.
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Joy
Sorrow
Worth
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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Life
Truth
Doubt
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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Hope
Discovery
Pleasure
Posterity
Will
I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.
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Error
Mind
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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Power
Thoughts
Nothing
Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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Difficulty
Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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Problems
A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
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Laws
State
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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Habit
Common sense
World
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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Mind
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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Dreams
Sleep
Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries.
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Talking
It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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Confidence