He who hid well, lived well.
RENE DESCARTESWhen 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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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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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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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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Masked, I advance.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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But what then am I? A thing that thinks. What is that? A thing that doubts, understand, affirms, denies, wills, refuses, and that also imagines and senses.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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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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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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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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