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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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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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Death Men Succeed Usual
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
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
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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Age Last Time Words
An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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Age Educated Mind
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
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
People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them, and are quite surprised to have done them.
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Done Knowing People
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
There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
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Neighbor Ridicule Ridiculous
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
To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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Happiness Heart Stomach
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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Astronomy Daughter Science
It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
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Libertarian Liberty World
I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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Certain Difficulty Last Words
In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we shall die as usual.
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Dupes Secret Usual

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