Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
BERNARD LE BOVIER DE FONTENELLENature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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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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To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.
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It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I no longer know where I am. I am just nothing at all. Our world is terrifying in its insignificance.
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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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Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been educated during all this time.
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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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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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I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
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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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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
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