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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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"It is in our authority and power to stop torment and sickness and deliver people from vanity."

"All human beings wield influence-a powerful sword granted at birth. Wield your sword with care."
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"The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge."

"It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived."

"The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt."

"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries."

"Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has."

"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."

"There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another."
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