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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?

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
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
I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
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Conversation Hate War
Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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Special Two Veils
There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
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Neighbor Ridicule Ridiculous
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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Astronomy Daughter Science
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
I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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Certain Difficulty Last Words
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
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
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
Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
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Future Knows
There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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Art Three Understanding
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
An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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Age Educated Mind

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