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An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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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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Geometry Hands Math Work
I detest war; it ruins conversation
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Political Ruin War
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
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
An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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Age Educated Mind
To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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Happiness Heart Stomach
It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
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Beauty Please Tenderness
They will have the World to be in Large, what a Watch is in Small; which is very regular, and depends only upon the just disposing of the several Parts of the Movement.
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Life Science Watches
Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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Grace Neatness Womanhood
I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.
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Regret Silence 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
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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Astronomy Daughter Science
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
There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
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Neighbor Ridicule Ridiculous
I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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Certain Difficulty Last Words
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

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