I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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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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The dreams we imagine when we are asleep should not in any way make us doubt the truth of the thoughts we have when we are awake.
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When I turn my mind’s eye upon myself, I understand that I am a thing which is incomplete and dependent on another and which aspires without limit to ever greater and better things…
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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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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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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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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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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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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