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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.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
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Conversation
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Everything Undo
A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools

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A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
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Fool
There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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Two Veils
An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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Educated
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Philosopher
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 Usual
People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them, and are quite surprised to have done them.

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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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Knowing
If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

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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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A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.
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Chants
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
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
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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Invented Moo
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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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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Hundred Years
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

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