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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less learn than to contemplate.
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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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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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The long concatenations of simple and easy reasoning which geometricians use in achieving their most difficult demonstrations gave me occasion to imagine that all matters which may enter the human mind were interrelated in the same fashion.
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