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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.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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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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I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
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I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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Truth comes home to the mind so naturally, that when we learn it for the first time, it seems as though we did no more than recall it to our memory.
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Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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I detest war; it ruins conversation
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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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A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
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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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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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It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see.
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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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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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It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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