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I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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Art Three Understanding
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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Astronomy Daughter Science
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
To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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Happiness Heart Stomach
The judgment may be compared to a clock or watch, where the most ordinary machine is sufficient to tell the hours; but the most elaborate alone can point out the minutes and seconds, and distinguish the smallest differences of time.
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Differences Ordinary Watches
Les vrais philosophes sont comme les e le phants, qui en marchant ne posent jamais le second pied a’ terre que le premier ne soit bien affermi. True philosophers are like elephants, who when walking never placetheir second footontheground untilthefirst is steady.
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Elephants Philosopher Steady
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
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
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
If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
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Funny Hands Truth
It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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Happiness Obstacles
I detest war; it ruins conversation
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Political Ruin War
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 hate war, for it spoils conversation.
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Conversation Hate War
Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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Grace Neatness Womanhood

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