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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!

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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Certain Difficulty Last Words
Les vrais philosophes sont comme les e le phants, qui en marchant ne posent jamais le second pied a’ terre que le premier ne soit bien affermi. True philosophers are like elephants, who when walking never placetheir second footontheground untilthefirst is steady.
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Elephants Philosopher Steady
Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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Natural Nature Science
There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
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Neighbor Ridicule Ridiculous
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
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
Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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Grace Neatness Womanhood
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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Astronomy Daughter Science
I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
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Conversation Hate War
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 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
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
There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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Art Three Understanding
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 detest war; it ruins conversation
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Political Ruin War
A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of geometry.
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