A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.
BERNARD LE BOVIER DE FONTENELLEThe 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.
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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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I detest war; it ruins conversation
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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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It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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Ah! si l’on o” tait les chime’ res aux hommes, quel plaisir leur resterait? Oh! If man were robbed of his fantasies, what pleasure would be left him?
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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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To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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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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Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
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Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
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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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