Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
BERNARD LE BOVIER DE FONTENELLEPeople almost always do great things without knowing how to do them, and are quite surprised to have done them.
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They will have the World to be in Large, what a Watch is in Small; which is very regular, and depends only upon the just disposing of the several Parts of the Movement.
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There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.
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A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of geometry.
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It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
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It is high time for me to depart, for at my age I now begin to see things as they really are.
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The Art of Flying is but newly invented, twill improve by degrees, and in time grow perfect; then we may fly as far as the Moon.
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Women react differently: a French woman who sees herself betrayed by her husband will kill his mistress; an Italian will kill her husband; a Spaniard will kill both; and a German will kill herself.
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Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!
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An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we shall die as usual.
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People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them, and are quite surprised to have done them.
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I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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