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

~Rene Descartes

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I think; therefore I am.

~Rene Descartes

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The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.

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

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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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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.

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Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.

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An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

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There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Mathematician

Born: March 31st, 1596

Died: February 11th, 1650

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