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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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It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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Ah! si l’on o” tait les chime’ res aux hommes, quel plaisir leur resterait? Oh! If man were robbed of his fantasies, what pleasure would be left him?
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I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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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.
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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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Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.
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Truth comes home to the mind so naturally, that when we learn it for the first time, it seems as though we did no more than recall it to our memory.
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It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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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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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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Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them, and are quite surprised to have done them.
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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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