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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.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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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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A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
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I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
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It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see.
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Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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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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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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There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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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
If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
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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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