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

- Rene Descartes

Source/Notes: "Descartes: Selected Philosophical Writings", Cambridge University Press, 1988, p. 29, "Discourse on the Method" - ISBN: 9780521358125

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“Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.”

- Rene Descartes

Source/Notes: Le Discours de la Méthode (1637), Part I

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“Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.”

- Rene Descartes

Source/Notes: Le Discours de la Méthode (1637)

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“Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.”

- Rene Descartes

Source/Notes: Le Discours de la Méthode (1637)

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“Everything is self-evident.”

- Rene Descartes

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“Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.”

- Rene Descartes

Source/Notes: Le Discours de la méthode (1637)

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

- Rene Descartes

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“I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.”

- Rene Descartes

Source/Notes: Descartes' philosophical writings, Volume 1 (Macmillan, 1952), p. 209

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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

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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.”

- Rene Descartes

Source/Notes: Darling, David J. (2004). The Universal Book of Mathematics. Wiley. p. 90. ISBN 978-0-471-27047-8.

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“Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.”

- Rene Descartes

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“In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.”

- Rene Descartes

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

- Rene Descartes

Source/Notes: Le Discours de la méthode (1637), pt. 1

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“It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.”

- Rene Descartes

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