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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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Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed: for everyone thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess.

Discourse on Method

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I know not if I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or if I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
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We ought never to allow ourselves to be persuaded of the truth of anything unless on the evidence of our own reason.
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To read good books is like holding a conversation with the most eminent minds of past centuries and, moreover, a studied conversation in which these authors reveal to us only the best of their thoughts.
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It is contrary to reason to say that there is a vacuum or space in which there is absolutely nothing.

Principia Philosophiae (1644) pt. 2, sect. 16 (tr. E. S. Haldane and G. R. T. Ross)

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Je pense, donc je suis.

I think, therefore I am.

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

Le Discours de la méthode (1637) pt. 1

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