一、Je pense, donc je suis
既然我有思想，说明我是存在的
二、A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
少数国家是更好的治理的法律,这些法律严格遵守。
三、Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
没有什么比常识更公平地分配:没有人认为他需要更多比他已经有了。
四、The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.
不时的感官欺骗,明智的做法是不要完全信任的人即使欺骗了我们。
五、The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
最大的思想能够最大的罪恶以及最伟大的美德。
六、The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
第一个教训是从不接受一件事真的直到我知道它没有一个怀疑。
七、In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.
为了提高思维,我们应该学习,不如考虑。
八、Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power. I think; therefore I am.
除了我们自己的想法,没有什么绝对的力量。我认为,故我在。
九、Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.
完美数字像完美的男人是非常罕见的。
一零、One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.
无法想象任何一个如此奇怪的和难以置信的,它不是已经说了一个哲学家或另一个。
一一、When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
当它不是我们所能遵循什么是正确的,我们应该遵循最可能是什么。
一二、If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
如果你将是一个真正的寻求真理,有必要至少一次在你的生活中你怀疑,尽可能一切。