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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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To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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Happiness Heart Stomach
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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Art Degree Future Invented Moo
Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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Grace Neatness Womanhood
It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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Everything Passion Undo
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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Astronomy Daughter Science
It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
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Beauty Please Tenderness
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
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
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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Elephants Feet Firsts
Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!
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Ambition Astronomy Passion Poor Thing
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
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.
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Knowledge Nothing Science World
If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
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Funny Hands Truth
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
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
Our sun enlightens the planets that belong to him; why may not every fixed star also have planets to which they give light?
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Enlighted Future Light Stars
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
I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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Certain Difficulty Last 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
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
A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
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Earth Fool Heaven
Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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Special Two Veils
There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
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Neighbor Ridicule Ridiculous
Leibniz never married; he had considered it at the age of fifty; but the person he had in mind asked for time to reflect. This gave Leibniz time to reflect, too, and so he never married.
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Math Mind Reflect Time
It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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Happiness Obstacles
Women react differently: a French woman who sees herself betrayed by her husband will kill his mistress; an Italian will kill her husband; a Spaniard will kill both; and a German will kill herself.
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Husband Italian Mistress Woman
An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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Age Educated Mind

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