Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
RENE DESCARTESIt is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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So far, I have been a spectator in this theatre which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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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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I think; therefore I am.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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Masked, I advance.
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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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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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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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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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