Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
RENE DESCARTESWhen it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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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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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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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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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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Masked, I advance.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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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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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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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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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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