He who hid well, lived well.
RENE DESCARTESExcept our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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I think; therefore I am.
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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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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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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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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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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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To live well is to live concealed.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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When I turn my mind’s eye upon myself, I understand that I am a thing which is incomplete and dependent on another and which aspires without limit to ever greater and better things…
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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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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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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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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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