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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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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
I detest war; it ruins conversation
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Political Ruin War
Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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Ah! si l’on o” tait les chime’ res aux hommes, quel plaisir leur resterait? Oh! If man were robbed of his fantasies, what pleasure would be left him?
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Aux Fantasy Hommes Men
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
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 is high time for me to depart, for at my age I now begin to see things as they really are.
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Age Last Time Words
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
An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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Age Educated Mind
It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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Happiness Obstacles
There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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Art Three Understanding
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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It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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Everything Passion Undo
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
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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