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    "Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point."

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    "But what then am I? A thing that thinks. What is that? A thing that doubts, understand, affirms, denies, wills, refuses, and that also imagines and senses."

    René Descartes

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    "If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things."

    René Descartes

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    "I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain."

    René Descartes

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    "It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived."

    René Descartes

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