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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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Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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Grace Neatness Womanhood
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
It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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Happiness Obstacles
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
It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
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Beauty Please Tenderness
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
A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.
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Chants Men Voice World
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
I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.
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Regret Silence World
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
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
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
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
It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
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Libertarian Liberty World
Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
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Future Knows

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