It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
BERNARD LE BOVIER DE FONTENELLEI feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
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Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him, and from this consequence another.
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To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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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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It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
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To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says.
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A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.
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The judgment may be compared to a clock or watch, where the most ordinary machine is sufficient to tell the hours; but the most elaborate alone can point out the minutes and seconds, and distinguish the smallest differences of time.
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Let us be well assured of the Matter of Fact, before we trouble our selves with enquiring into the Cause. It is true, that this Method is too slow for the greatest part of Mankind, who run naturally to the Cause, and pass over the Truth of the Matter of Fact.
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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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There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
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