- "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."
- "Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it."
- "Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow."
- "When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable."
- "It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well."
- "I think; therefore I am."
- "Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power."
- "I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake."
- "Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems."
- "Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it."
- "An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?"
- "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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