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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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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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Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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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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A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
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It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
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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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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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It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
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Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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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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There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
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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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As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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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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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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There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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