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Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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Astronomy Daughter Science
I detest war; it ruins conversation
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Political Ruin War
If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
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Funny Hands Truth
Since the princes take the Earth for their own, it’s fair that the philosophers reserve the sky for themselves and rule there, but they should never permit the entry of others.
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Earth Philosopher Sky
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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Knowing Pretension Speak
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
It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
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Beauty Please Tenderness
It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
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Libertarian Liberty World
To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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Happiness Heart Stomach
Our sun enlightens the planets that belong to him; why may not every fixed star also have planets to which they give light?
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Enlighted Future Light Stars
Leibniz never married; he had considered it at the age of fifty; but the person he had in mind asked for time to reflect. This gave Leibniz time to reflect, too, and so he never married.
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Math Mind Reflect Time
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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Art Degree Future Invented Moo
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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Age Last Time Words
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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Elephants Feet Firsts
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
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

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