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Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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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
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
To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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Happiness Heart Stomach
It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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Happiness Obstacles
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
Nature intends that, at fixed periods, men should succeed each other by the instrumentality of death. We shall never outwit Nature; we shall die as usual.
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Death Men Succeed Usual
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
A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.
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Chants Men Voice 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
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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Astronomy Daughter Science
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
The judgment may be compared to a clock or watch, where the most ordinary machine is sufficient to tell the hours; but the most elaborate alone can point out the minutes and seconds, and distinguish the smallest differences of time.
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Differences Ordinary Watches
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
It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
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Libertarian Liberty World
It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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Everything Passion Undo
I have lived one hundred years; and I die with the consolation of never having thrown the slightest ridicule upon the smallest virtue.
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Hundred Virtue Years

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