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As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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They will have the World to be in Large, what a Watch is in Small; which is very regular, and depends only upon the just disposing of the several Parts of the Movement.
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Life Science Watches
I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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Certain Difficulty Last Words
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
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 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
There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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Art Three Understanding
To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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Happiness Heart Stomach
It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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Happiness Obstacles
A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.
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Chants Men Voice World
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 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
It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
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Libertarian Liberty World
There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
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Neighbor Ridicule Ridiculous
A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
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Earth Fool Heaven
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

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