I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen

René Descartes

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Masked, I advance.

René Descartes

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I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain.

René Descartes

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Dubium sapientiae initium. (Doubt is the origin of wisdom.)

René Descartes

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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

René Descartes


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He who hid well, lived well.

René Descartes


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In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.

René Descartes

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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.

René Descartes


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For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than the increasing discovery of my own ignorance

René Descartes


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Je puis me persuader d'avoir été fait tel par la nature que je puisse aisément me tromper même dans les choses que je crois comprendre avec le plus d'évidence et de certitude.

René Descartes


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