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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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People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them, and are quite surprised to have done them.
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Done Knowing People
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
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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Art Degree Future Invented Moo
I detest war; it ruins conversation
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Political Ruin War
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
Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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Special Two Veils
I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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Certain Difficulty Last Words
Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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Natural Nature Science
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
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
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
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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It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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Everything Passion Undo
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
I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
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Conversation Hate War

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