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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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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
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 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
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
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
I detest war; it ruins conversation
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Political Ruin War
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
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
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
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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Astronomy Daughter Science
It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
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Beauty Please Tenderness
Our sun enlightens the planets that belong to him; why may not every fixed star also have planets to which they give light?
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Enlighted Future Light Stars
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
I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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Certain Difficulty Last Words
Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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Special Two Veils
An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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Age Educated Mind
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
It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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Happiness Obstacles
A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
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Earth Fool Heaven
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
It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
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Libertarian Liberty World
Let us be well assured of the Matter of Fact, before we trouble our selves with enquiring into the Cause. It is true, that this Method is too slow for the greatest part of Mankind, who run naturally to the Cause, and pass over the Truth of the Matter of Fact.
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Running Science Self
Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
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Future Knows
Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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Grace Neatness Womanhood
It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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Everything Passion Undo
Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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