I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto ‘to live well you must live unseen’.
RENE DESCARTESBad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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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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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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Common 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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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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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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