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.
BERNARD LE BOVIER DE FONTENELLEOur 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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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
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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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It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.
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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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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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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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We must always skim over pleasures. They are like marshy lands that we must travel nimbly, hardly daring to put down our feet.
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An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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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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It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
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Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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