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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.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
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Beauty Please Tenderness
I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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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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Aux Fantasy Hommes Men
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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I detest war; it ruins conversation
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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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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
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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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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
A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
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Earth Fool Heaven
I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
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To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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Happiness Heart Stomach
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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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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It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
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