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An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
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Earth Fool Heaven
To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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Happiness Heart Stomach
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
It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
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Libertarian Liberty World
It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
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Beauty Please Tenderness
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
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 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
Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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Grace Neatness Womanhood
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
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
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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Astronomy Daughter Science
Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
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Future Knows
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
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 the passions that do and undo everything.
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Everything Passion Undo

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