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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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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.
BERNARD LE BOVIER DE FONTENELLE

Earth Philosopher Sky
Nature intends that, at fixed periods, men should succeed each other by the instrumentality of death. We shall never outwit Nature; we shall die as usual.
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Death Men Succeed Usual
It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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Everything Passion Undo
Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
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Future Knows
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
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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Astronomy Daughter Science
A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
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Earth Fool Heaven
In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we shall die as usual.
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Dupes Secret Usual
Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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Natural Nature Science
Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him, and from this consequence another.
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Lover Math Principles
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
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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Knowing Pretension Speak
A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.
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Chants Men Voice World
I detest war; it ruins conversation
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Political Ruin War
I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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