It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
RENE DESCARTESBut 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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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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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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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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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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Let 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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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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I think; therefore I am.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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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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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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