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"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues." -
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Rene Descartes
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"Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess."
"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems."
"Cogito, ergo, sum. (I think; therefore I am.)"
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