Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.
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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess.
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I thought the following four rules would be enough, provided that I made a firm and constant resolution not to fail even once in the observance of them. The first was never to accept anything as true if I had not evident knowledge of its being so that.
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When writing about transcendental issues, be transcendentally clear.
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