A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.

Rene Descartes
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  1. Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.

  2. I think therefore I am.

  3. 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.

  4. I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.

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