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It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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I have lived one hundred years; and I die with the consolation of never having thrown the slightest ridicule upon the smallest virtue.
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Hundred Virtue Years
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
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
To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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Happiness Heart Stomach
I detest war; it ruins conversation
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Political Ruin War
An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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Age Educated Mind
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
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
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
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
If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
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Funny Hands Truth
Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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Natural Nature Science
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 hate war, for it spoils conversation.
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Conversation Hate War
There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
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Neighbor Ridicule Ridiculous
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

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