It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
RENE DESCARTESI 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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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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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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Masked, I advance.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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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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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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I think; therefore I am.
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For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than the increasing discovery of my own ignorance
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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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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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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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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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