It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
RENE DESCARTESAll that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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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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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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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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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things
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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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I think; therefore I am.
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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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Masked, I advance.
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