The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
RENE DESCARTESThere is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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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Masked, I advance.
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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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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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