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...it is a mark of prudence never to place our complete trust in those who have deceived us even once.


René Descartes

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MARK TWAIN We are inclined to believe those whom we don not know because they have never deceived us.
SAMUEL JOHNSON We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
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RENé DESCARTES I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of ...
RENé DESCARTES I think; therefore I am.
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RENé DESCARTES Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
RENé DESCARTES So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along ...
RENé DESCARTES Cogito ergo sum. (I think, therefore I am.)
RENé DESCARTES And thus, the actions of life often not allowing any delay, it is a truth very certain that, when it...
RENé DESCARTES Whence then come my errors? They come from the sole fact that since the will is much wider in its ra...
RENé DESCARTES The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
RENé DESCARTES ...the greater objective (representative) perfection there is in our idea of a thing, the greater al...
RENé DESCARTES ...we ought also to consider as false all that is doubtful.
RENé DESCARTES With me, everything turns into mathematics.
RENé DESCARTES But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
RENé DESCARTES Masked, I advance.
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RENé DESCARTES ...we ought also to consider as false all that is doubtful.
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RENé DESCARTES ...we ought not meanwhile to make use of doubt in the conduct of life.
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RENé DESCARTES Dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum.

(English: "I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am")
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RENE DESCARTES Dubito ergo cogito; cogito ergo sum.
(I doubt, therefore I think; I think therefore I am)
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RENé FRANCOIS REGNIER Para que los pasos no me lloren,
para que las palabras no me sangren:
canto.

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