It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
RENE DESCARTESCommon 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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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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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Nothing is made from nothing.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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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 not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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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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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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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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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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