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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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As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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Astronomy Daughter Science
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
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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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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Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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Special Two Veils
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
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
A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.
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It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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Everything Passion Undo
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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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
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It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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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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I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
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Conversation Hate War
To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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Happiness Heart Stomach
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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