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People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them, and are quite surprised to have done them.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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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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Elephants Feet Firsts
There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
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Neighbor Ridicule Ridiculous
It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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Happiness Obstacles
It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
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Beauty Please Tenderness
A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.
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Chants Men Voice World
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
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
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
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
It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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Everything Passion Undo
It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
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Libertarian Liberty World
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 philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
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Earth Fool Heaven
There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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Art Three Understanding
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
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

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