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ONT Re: Excisions, Excuses, Exercises, Exergues, Exorabilities, Exorcisms, Exordia, Experimenta, Exponents, Expositions, Exquisitions




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| I use the term "vices" to refer to the diseases of the mind,
| which are not so easy to recognize as diseases of the body.
| This is because we have frequently experienced sound bodily
| health, but have never known true health of the mind.
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| René Descartes, 'Experimenta', CSM 1, page 3.
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| René Descartes, 'The Philosophical Writings of Descartes', Volume 1,
| Translated by John Cottingham, Robert Stoothoff, Dugald Murdoch,
| Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1985.

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