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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

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A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
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Earth Fool Heaven
There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
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Neighbor Ridicule Ridiculous
It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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Everything Passion Undo
I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
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Conversation Hate War
Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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Grace Neatness Womanhood
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
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
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
Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!
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Ambition Astronomy Passion Poor Thing
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 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
There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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Art Three Understanding
It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
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Libertarian Liberty World
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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Math Mind Reflect Time
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

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