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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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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
I detest war; it ruins conversation
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Political Ruin War
To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says.
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Knowing Pretension Speak
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
I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.
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Regret Silence World
It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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Everything Passion Undo
To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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Happiness Heart Stomach
We must always skim over pleasures. They are like marshy lands that we must travel nimbly, hardly daring to put down our feet.
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Feet Land Pleasure
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
Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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Special Two Veils
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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Astronomy Daughter Science
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
Since the princes take the Earth for their own, it’s fair that the philosophers reserve the sky for themselves and rule there, but they should never permit the entry of others.
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Earth Philosopher Sky
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
I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
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Conversation Hate War

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