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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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I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.
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Regret Silence World
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
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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Astronomy Daughter Science
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
A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
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Earth Fool Heaven
I detest war; it ruins conversation
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Political Ruin War
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
It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
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Libertarian Liberty World
It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
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Beauty Please Tenderness
Let us be well assured of the Matter of Fact, before we trouble our selves with enquiring into the Cause. It is true, that this Method is too slow for the greatest part of Mankind, who run naturally to the Cause, and pass over the Truth of the Matter of Fact.
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Running Science Self
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
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
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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Feet Land Pleasure
To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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Happiness Heart Stomach
There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
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Neighbor Ridicule Ridiculous
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

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