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• There is a little gland in the brain in which the soul exercises its functions in a more particular way than in…
• [About Pierre de Fermat] It cannot be denied that he has had many exceptional ideas, and that he is a highly intelligent…
• Even the mind depends so much on temperament and the disposition of one's bodily organs that, if it is possible to find…
• And as it is the most generous souls who have most gratitude, it is those who have most pride, and who are…
• God alone is the author of all the motions in the world.
• The only secure knowledge is that I exist.
• Omnia apud me mathematica fiunt.
• Variant: When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
• De omnibus dubitandum
• It must not be thought that it is ever possible to reach the interior earth by any perseverance in mining: both because…
• There is nothing so far removed from us to be beyond our reach, or so far hidden that we cannot discover it.
• Everything is self-evident.

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