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It is high time for me to depart, for at my age I now begin to see things as they really are.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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Everything Passion Undo
An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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Age Educated Mind
I detest war; it ruins conversation
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Political Ruin War
I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
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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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Done Knowing People
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
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
There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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Art Three Understanding
I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.
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Regret Silence World
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
It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
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Beauty Please Tenderness
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
It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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Happiness Obstacles
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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Astronomy Daughter Science
I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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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

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