When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
RENE DESCARTESIn 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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Masked, I advance.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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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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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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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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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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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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