To live well is to live concealed.
RENE DESCARTESIt is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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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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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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Nothing is made from nothing.
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Masked, I advance.
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