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Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.

Rene Descartes

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Rene Descartes
Age: 53 †
Born: 1596
Born: March 31
Died: 1650
Died: February 11
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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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Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.
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... moral certainty is certainty which is sufficient to regulate our behaviour, or which measures up to the certainty we have on matters relating to the conduct of life which we never normally doubt, though we know that it is possible, absolutely speaking, that they may be false.
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...it is certain that I am really distinct from my body, and can exist without it.
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Science is practical philosophy.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.
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I can doubt everything, except one thing, and that is the very fact that I doubt. Simply put - I think, therefore I am
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Sensations are nothing but confused modes of thinking.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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The rainbow is such a remarkable phenomenon of nature, and its cause has been so meticulously sought after by inquiring minds throughout the ages, that I could not choose a more appropriate subject for demonstrating how, with the method I am using, we can arrive at knowledge not possessed at all by those whose writings are available to us.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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Few look for truth many prowl about for a reputation of profundity by arrogantly challenging whichever arguments are the best.
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Omnia apud me mathematica fiunt.
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Divide each difficulty at hand into as many pieces as possible and as could be required to better solve them.
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