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A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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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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Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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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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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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It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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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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If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.
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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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I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.
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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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I detest war; it ruins conversation
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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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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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People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them, and are quite surprised to have done them.
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