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I detest war; it ruins conversation

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.
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Regret Silence World
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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Astronomy Daughter Science
Les vrais philosophes sont comme les e le phants, qui en marchant ne posent jamais le second pied a’ terre que le premier ne soit bien affermi. True philosophers are like elephants, who when walking never placetheir second footontheground untilthefirst is steady.
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Elephants Philosopher Steady
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
An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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Age Educated Mind
I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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Certain Difficulty Last Words
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
There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
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Neighbor Ridicule Ridiculous
There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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Art Three Understanding
Truth comes home to the mind so naturally, that when we learn it for the first time, it seems as though we did no more than recall it to our memory.
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Home Memories Motivational
I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
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Conversation Hate War
In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we shall die as usual.
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Dupes Secret Usual
Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
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Future Knows
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
It is high time for me to depart, for at my age I now begin to see things as they really are.
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Age Last Time Words
Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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