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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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Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
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Future Knows
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
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
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
An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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Age Educated Mind
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
To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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Happiness Heart Stomach
There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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Art Three Understanding
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
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 shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.
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Regret Silence World
Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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Grace Neatness Womanhood
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
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 beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
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Beauty Please Tenderness

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