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The Art of Flying is but newly invented, twill improve by degrees, and in time grow perfect; then we may fly as far as the Moon.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.
BERNARD LE BOVIER DE FONTENELLE

Carefully Hands Open Thinking
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
To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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Happiness Heart Stomach
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
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
I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.
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Regret Silence World
A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
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Earth Fool Heaven
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
There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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Art Three Understanding
Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
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Future Knows
I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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Certain Difficulty Last Words
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
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
It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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Happiness Obstacles
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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