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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

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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 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
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
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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Home Memories Motivational
A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
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Earth Fool Heaven
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
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 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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I detest war; it ruins conversation
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Political Ruin War
It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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Happiness Obstacles
Since the princes take the Earth for their own, it’s fair that the philosophers reserve the sky for themselves and rule there, but they should never permit the entry of others.
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Earth Philosopher Sky
I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.
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Regret Silence World
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
It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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Everything Passion Undo

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