Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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Masked, I advance.
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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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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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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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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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Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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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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