With me, everything turns into mathematics.
RENE DESCARTESConquer yourself rather than the world.
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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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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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You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
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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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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, 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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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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