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Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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
I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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Certain Difficulty Last Words
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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Astronomy Daughter Science
Les vrais philosophes sont comme les e le phants, qui en marchant ne posent jamais le second pied a’ terre que le premier ne soit bien affermi. True philosophers are like elephants, who when walking never placetheir second footontheground untilthefirst is steady.
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Elephants Philosopher Steady
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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Inspirational Mind Motivation
Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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Natural Nature Science
Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!
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Ambition Astronomy Passion Poor Thing
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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Home Memories Motivational
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
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 detest war; it ruins conversation
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Political Ruin War
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
Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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Special Two Veils
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 philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
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Earth Fool Heaven
There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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Art Three Understanding

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