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I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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.
BERNARD LE BOVIER DE FONTENELLE

Home Memories Motivational
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
BERNARD LE BOVIER DE FONTENELLE

Astronomy Daughter Science
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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Death Men Succeed Usual
I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
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Conversation Hate War
I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.
BERNARD LE BOVIER DE FONTENELLE

Regret Silence World
A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
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Earth Fool Heaven
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 be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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Happiness Heart Stomach
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
Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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Grace Neatness Womanhood
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
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
They will have the World to be in Large, what a Watch is in Small; which is very regular, and depends only upon the just disposing of the several Parts of the Movement.
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Life Science Watches
It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
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Libertarian Liberty World
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
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