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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?

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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Special Two Veils
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
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
Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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Natural Nature Science
It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
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Beauty Please Tenderness
A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been educated during all this time.
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Inspirational Mind Motivation
To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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Happiness Heart Stomach
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
It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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Happiness Obstacles
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
Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
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Future Knows
An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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Age Educated Mind
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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Astronomy Daughter Science
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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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
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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