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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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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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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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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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An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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Age Educated Mind
I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
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Conversation Hate War
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
Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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Special Two Veils
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
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
If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
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Funny Hands Truth
Les vrais philosophes sont comme les e le phants, qui en marchant ne posent jamais le second pied a’ terre que le premier ne soit bien affermi. True philosophers are like elephants, who when walking never placetheir second footontheground untilthefirst is steady.
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Elephants Philosopher Steady
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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Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
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Future Knows
Truth comes home to the mind so naturally, that when we learn it for the first time, it seems as though we did no more than recall it to our memory.
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Home Memories Motivational
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 a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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Happiness Obstacles
It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
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I detest war; it ruins conversation
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Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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Natural Nature Science
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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Geometry Hands Math Work
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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Astronomy Daughter Science
The judgment may be compared to a clock or watch, where the most ordinary machine is sufficient to tell the hours; but the most elaborate alone can point out the minutes and seconds, and distinguish the smallest differences of time.
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Differences Ordinary Watches
It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
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Libertarian Liberty World
I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.
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Regret Silence World
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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