I concluded that I might take as a general rule the principle that all things which we very … - Rene Descartes

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The death of my daughter is a subject I talk about briefly because there is nothing more tragic.

Rene Descartes

I concluded that I might take as a general rule the principle that all things which we very clearly and obviously conceive are true: only observing, however, that there is some difficulty in rightly determining the objects which we distinctly conceive.

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We do not describe the world we see, we see the world we can describe.

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The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.

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De omnibus dubitandum

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Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.

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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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