It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
RENE DESCARTESOne should never judge anything unless it is known
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I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me.
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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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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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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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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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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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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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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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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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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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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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To think? That’s it. It is thought. This alone cannot be detached from me. I am, I exist; that is certain.
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