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“The dreams we imagine when we are asleep should not in any way make us doubt the truth of the thoughts we have when we are awake.”
“And, in fine, of false sciences I thought I knew the worth sufficiently to escape being deceived by the professions of an alchemist, the predictions of an astrologer, the impostures of a magician, ...”
“For, occupied incessantly with the consideration of the limits prescribed to their power by nature, they [philosophers of former times] became so entirely convinced that nothing was at their dispos...”
