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When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to fo

When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable. – Rene Descartes

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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. – 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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Common Sense
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I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery. – Rene Descartes

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Sir, I am no sycophant or worshipper of power anywhere. – Benjamin F. Wade

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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again. – Arabic Proverb

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how. – Orison Swett Marden

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Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins. – William Pitt

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