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A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of geometry.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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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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Lover Math Principles
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
There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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Art Three Understanding
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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Astronomy Daughter Science
A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.
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Chants Men Voice World
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
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
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
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
I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.
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Regret Silence World
It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
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Libertarian Liberty World
I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
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Conversation Hate War
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
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
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
Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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Grace Neatness Womanhood

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