Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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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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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The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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Masked, I advance.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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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 first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
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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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To live well is to live concealed.
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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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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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