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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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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
If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
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Funny Hands Truth
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
I detest war; it ruins conversation
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Political Ruin War
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
It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
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Libertarian Liberty World
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
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
To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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Happiness Heart Stomach
Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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Grace Neatness Womanhood
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
A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.
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Chants Men Voice World
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
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
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
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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Astronomy Daughter Science

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