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I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
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Earth Fool Heaven
If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
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Funny Hands Truth
To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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Happiness Heart Stomach
I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
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Conversation Hate War
To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says.
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Knowing Pretension Speak
Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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Natural Nature Science
It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
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Beauty Please Tenderness
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
A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see.
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Believe Busy Philosopher
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
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
Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him, and from this consequence another.
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Lover Math Principles
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
I detest war; it ruins conversation
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Political Ruin War
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 man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.
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Chants Men Voice World

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