I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.
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If I found any new truths in the sciences, I can say that they follow from, or depend on, five or six principal problems which I succeeded in solving and which I regard as so many battles where the fortunes of war were on my side.
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A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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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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