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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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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
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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Astronomy Daughter Science
The judgment may be compared to a clock or watch, where the most ordinary machine is sufficient to tell the hours; but the most elaborate alone can point out the minutes and seconds, and distinguish the smallest differences of time.
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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
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Funny Hands Truth
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
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
I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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Certain Difficulty Last Words
I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.
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Regret Silence World
Our sun enlightens the planets that belong to him; why may not every fixed star also have planets to which they give light?
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Enlighted Future Light Stars
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 hate war, for it spoils conversation.
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Conversation Hate War
It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
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Beauty Please Tenderness
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
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
Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
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Future Knows
A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.
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Chants Men Voice World

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