He Who Hid Well, Lived Well.

Everything Is Self-evident.

This Result Could Have Been Achieved Either By His [god] Endowing My Intellect With A Clear And Distinct Perception Of Everything About Which I Would Ever Deliberate, Or Simply By Impressing The Following Rule So Firmly Upon My Memory That I Could Never Forget It: I Should Never Judge Anything That I Do Not Clearly And Distinctly Understand.

Hence Reason Also Demands That, Since Our Thoughts Cannot All Be True Because We Are Not Wholly Perfect, What Truth They Do Possess Must Inevitably Be Found In The Thoughts We Have When Awake, Rather Than In Our Dreams.

... Regard This Body As A Machine Which, Having Been Made By The Hand Of God, Is Incomparably Better Ordered Than Any Machine That Can Be Devised By Man, And Contains In Itself Movements More Wonderful Than Those In Any Machine. ... It Is For All Practical Purposes Impossible For A Machine To Have Enough Organs To Make It Act In All The Contingencies Of Life In The Way In Which Our Reason Makes Us Act.

He Lives Well Who Is Well Hidden.