Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
RENE DESCARTESTo live well is to live concealed.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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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 doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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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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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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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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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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