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RENE DESCARTESI took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
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But what then am I? A thing that thinks. What is that? A thing that doubts, understand, affirms, denies, wills, refuses, and that also imagines and senses.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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I had become aware, as early as my college days, that no opinion, however absurd and incredible can be imagined, that has not been held by one of the philosophers.
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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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Masked, I advance.
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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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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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