Quotes from authors born in 1596
Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.
Rene Descartes
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
Rene Descartes
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.
Rene Descartes
Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.
Rene Descartes
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.
Rene Descartes
Klaus Kinkel 
Julius Sterling Morton 
Henry Waxman 
Jesse Brown 
Neil Young 
Huston Smith 
Esai Morales 
Topher Grace