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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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I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
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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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A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been educated during all this time.
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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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A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.
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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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The Art of Flying is but newly invented, twill improve by degrees, and in time grow perfect; then we may fly as far as the Moon.
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A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
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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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People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them, and are quite surprised to have done them.
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A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see.
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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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Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
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It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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