Nothing is made from nothing.
RENE DESCARTESI am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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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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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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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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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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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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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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I had become aware, as early as my college days, that no opinion, however absurd and incredible can be imagined, that has not been held by one of the philosophers.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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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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