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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.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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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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Lover Math Principles
A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see.
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Believe Busy Philosopher
I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.
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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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I have lived one hundred years; and I die with the consolation of never having thrown the slightest ridicule upon the smallest virtue.
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Hundred Virtue Years
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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A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
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Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
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It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
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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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There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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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 detest war; it ruins conversation
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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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