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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

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

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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.

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Everything is self-evident.

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

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One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.

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The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.

~Rene Descartes

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Mathematician

Born: March 31st, 1596

Died: February 11th, 1650

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