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If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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Grace Neatness Womanhood
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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Astronomy Daughter Science
It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
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A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see.
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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
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
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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Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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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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To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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Happiness Heart Stomach
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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An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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Age Educated Mind
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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People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them, and are quite surprised to have done them.
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It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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Everything Passion Undo
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

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