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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.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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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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Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
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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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As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
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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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It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
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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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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
If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
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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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