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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!

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
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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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Done Knowing People
Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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Grace Neatness Womanhood
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
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
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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Dupes Secret Usual
It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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Happiness Obstacles
Women react differently: a French woman who sees herself betrayed by her husband will kill his mistress; an Italian will kill her husband; a Spaniard will kill both; and a German will kill herself.
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Husband Italian Mistress Woman
It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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Everything Passion Undo
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
If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
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Funny Hands Truth
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 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
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
I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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