A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.
BERNARD LE BOVIER DE FONTENELLEAs astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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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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To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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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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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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It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
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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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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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Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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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?
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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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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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A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
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It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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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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