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I think, therefore I am.
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In my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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But possibly I am something more than I suppose myself to be.
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I suppose the body to be just a statue or a machine made of earth.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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Neither divine grace nor natural knowledge ever diminishes freedom.
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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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Conversing with those of past centuries is much the same as travelling.
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And thereby make ourselves, as it were, the lords and masters of nature.
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I accept no principles of physics which are not also accepted in mathematics...
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Thus each truth discovered was a rule available in the discovery of subsequent ones.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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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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God always preserves in the world just so much motion as He impressed on it at its first creation.
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In truth, the most important thing for curing illnesses and maintaining health is good humor and joy.
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It is contrary to reason to say that there is a vacuum or space in which there is absolutely nothing.
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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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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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I can establish as a general rule that all things which I perceive very clearly and distinctly are true.
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I was convinced that our beliefs are based much more on custom and example than on any certain knowledge.
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When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to act accordingly to what is most probable.
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What is there, then, that can be esteemed true? Perhaps this only, that there is absolutely nothing certain.
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If we consider all external goods as equally beyond our power, we shall no more regret the absence of such goods...
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Anyone who, upon looking down at his bare feet, doesn't laugh, has either no sense of symmetry or no sense of humor.
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Staying as I am, one foot in one country and the other in another, I find my condition very happy, in that it is free.
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Common sense is the best distributed commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
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Born:
March 31, 1596
Died:
February 11, 1650
(aged 53)
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