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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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I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
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Conversation Hate War
It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
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Beauty Please Tenderness
People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them, and are quite surprised to have done them.
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Done Knowing People
Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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Natural Nature Science
A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
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Earth Fool Heaven
To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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Happiness Heart Stomach
If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.
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Carefully Hands Open Thinking
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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Geometry Hands Math Work
I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.
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Regret Silence World
Nature intends that, at fixed periods, men should succeed each other by the instrumentality of death. We shall never outwit Nature; we shall die as usual.
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Death Men Succeed Usual
I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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Certain Difficulty Last Words
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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Differences Ordinary Watches
Ah! si l’on o” tait les chime’ res aux hommes, quel plaisir leur resterait? Oh! If man were robbed of his fantasies, what pleasure would be left him?
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Aux Fantasy Hommes Men
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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Life Science Watches
If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
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Funny Hands Truth
An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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Age Educated Mind

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