Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
RENE DESCARTESIt is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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I think; therefore I am.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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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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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than the increasing discovery of my own ignorance
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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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 dreams we imagine when we are asleep should not in any way make us doubt the truth of the thoughts we have when we are awake.
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