Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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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
I concluded that I might take as a general rule the principle that all things which we very clearly and obviously conceive are true only observing, however, that there is some difficulty in rightly determining the objects which we distinctly conceive.
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Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
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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 two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
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