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This result could have been achieved either by his [God] endowing my intellect with a clear and distinct perception of everything about which I would ever deliberate, or simply by impressing the following rule so firmly upon my memory that I could never forget it: I should never judge anything that I do not clearly and distinctly understand.

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But possibly I am something more than I suppose myself to be.

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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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De omnibus dubitandum

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The only thing we have power over in the universe is our own thoughts.

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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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.

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Omnia apud me mathematica fiunt.

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