A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.
BERNARD LE BOVIER DE FONTENELLEBehold 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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To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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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.
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It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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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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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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I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
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An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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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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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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Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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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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As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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