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We must always skim over pleasures. They are like marshy lands that we must travel nimbly, hardly daring to put down our feet.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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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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Hundred Virtue Years
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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Ambition Astronomy Passion Poor Thing
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
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
It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
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Beauty Please Tenderness
A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been educated during all this time.
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Inspirational Mind Motivation
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
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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Astronomy Daughter Science
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
There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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Art Three Understanding
I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
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Conversation Hate War
An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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Age Educated Mind
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
Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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Natural Nature Science
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
A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.
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Chants Men Voice World
Women react differently: a French woman who sees herself betrayed by her husband will kill his mistress; an Italian will kill her husband; a Spaniard will kill both; and a German will kill herself.
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Husband Italian Mistress Woman
Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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Grace Neatness Womanhood
If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
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Funny Hands Truth
It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
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Libertarian Liberty World
A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
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Earth Fool Heaven
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
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
To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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Happiness Heart Stomach
I detest war; it ruins conversation
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Political Ruin War
I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.
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Regret Silence World

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