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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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An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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Age Educated Mind
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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Astronomy Daughter Science
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
If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.
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Carefully Hands Open Thinking
I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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Certain Difficulty Last Words
Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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Grace Neatness Womanhood
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
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 man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.
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Chants Men Voice World
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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Inspirational Mind Motivation
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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Enlighted Future Light Stars
Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
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Future Knows
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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Feet Land Pleasure
It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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Happiness Obstacles
There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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Art Three Understanding
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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