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There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
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Neighbor Ridicule Ridiculous
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 hate war, for it spoils conversation.
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Conversation Hate War
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
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
Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
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It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
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Beauty Please Tenderness
Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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Natural Nature Science
If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
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Funny Hands Truth
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
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
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
I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.
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Regret Silence World
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
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
There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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