Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
RENE DESCARTESConquer yourself rather than the world.
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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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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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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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I think; therefore I am.
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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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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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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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Masked, I advance.
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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 am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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