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Quotation from Discourse on Method by Rene Descartes
“we could free ourselves from an infinity of maladies of body as well as of mind, and perhaps also even from the debility of age”
Discourse on Method, Part VI, trans. John Veitch (19th century)
Descartes's hope that sufficient knowledge of causes and remedies could cure mental and bodily illness and slow ageing.
Citation: "we could free ourselves from an infinity of maladies of body as well as of mind, and perhaps also even from the debility of age" — Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method, Part VI, trans. John Veitch (19th century). (id discourse-on-method-q14)
Portrait: Portrait of the French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes (1596-1650), After Frans Hals, Public domain.
