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A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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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
There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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Art Three Understanding
Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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Grace Neatness Womanhood
Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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Natural Nature Science
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
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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Astronomy Daughter Science
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
Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
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Future Knows
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
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
An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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Age Educated Mind
It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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Everything Passion Undo
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
If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
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Funny Hands Truth
Women react differently: a French woman who sees herself betrayed by her husband will kill his mistress; an Italian will kill her husband; a Spaniard will kill both; and a German will kill herself.
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Husband Italian Mistress Woman
I detest war; it ruins conversation
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Political Ruin War

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