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I detest war; it ruins conversation

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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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
Our sun enlightens the planets that belong to him; why may not every fixed star also have planets to which they give light?
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Enlighted Future Light Stars
Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
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Future Knows
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
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 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
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
There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
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Neighbor Ridicule Ridiculous
It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
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Libertarian Liberty World
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
A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
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Earth Fool Heaven
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 shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.
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Regret Silence World
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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Certain Difficulty Last Words
It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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Happiness Obstacles
An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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Age Educated Mind
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
Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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Special Two Veils
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
If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
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Funny Hands Truth
I detest war; it ruins conversation
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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
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 Hands Open Thinking
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 Virtue Years
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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