Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
RENE DESCARTESLet whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.
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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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So far, I have been a spectator in this theatre which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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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.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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I think; therefore I am.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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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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Masked, I advance.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto ‘to live well you must live unseen’.
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For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than the increasing discovery of my own ignorance
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