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I detest war; it ruins conversation

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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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
If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.
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Carefully Hands Open Thinking
I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
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Conversation Hate War
Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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Grace Neatness Womanhood
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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Astronomy Daughter Science
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
Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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Natural Nature Science
Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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Special Two Veils
It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
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Beauty Please Tenderness
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
A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
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Earth Fool Heaven
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
A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been educated during all this time.
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Inspirational Mind Motivation
An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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Age Educated Mind
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
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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Aux Fantasy Hommes Men

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