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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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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
It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
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Libertarian Liberty World
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
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
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
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
I detest war; it ruins conversation
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Political Ruin War
A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
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Earth Fool Heaven
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
It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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Everything Passion Undo
There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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Art Three Understanding
Since the princes take the Earth for their own, it’s fair that the philosophers reserve the sky for themselves and rule there, but they should never permit the entry of others.
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Earth Philosopher Sky
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
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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