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Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.Rene Descartes
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I think therefore I am.Rene Descartes
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I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.Rene Descartes
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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.Rene Descartes
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I think therefore I am.Rene Descartes
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It is not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well.Rene Descartes
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The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.Rene Descartes
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It is not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well.Rene Descartes
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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.Rene Descartes
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I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.Rene Descartes
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When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.Rene Descartes
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The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.Rene Descartes
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A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.Rene Descartes
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Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.Rene Descartes