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There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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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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Knowledge Nothing Science World
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
I detest war; it ruins conversation
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Political Ruin War
We must always skim over pleasures. They are like marshy lands that we must travel nimbly, hardly daring to put down our feet.
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Feet Land Pleasure
There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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Art Three Understanding
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 Speak
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
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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Astronomy Daughter Science
I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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Certain Difficulty Last Words
Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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Grace Neatness Womanhood
Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
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Future Knows
The judgment may be compared to a clock or watch, where the most ordinary machine is sufficient to tell the hours; but the most elaborate alone can point out the minutes and seconds, and distinguish the smallest differences of time.
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Differences Ordinary Watches
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
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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Earth Philosopher Sky
An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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Age Educated Mind

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