When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
RENE DESCARTESI took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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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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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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