It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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Everything is self-evident.
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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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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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There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.
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