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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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To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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Happiness Heart Stomach
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
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
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
Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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Special Two Veils
There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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Art Three Understanding
It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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Everything Passion Undo
Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
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Future Knows
Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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Natural Nature 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
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
If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
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Funny Hands Truth
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
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
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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Astronomy Daughter Science

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