Tag: Rene Descartes
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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
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Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
Rene Descartes
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Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.
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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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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The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.
Rene Descartes
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A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
Rene Descartes
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
Rene Descartes