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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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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
It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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Happiness Obstacles
Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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Special Two Veils
To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.
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Chants Men Voice World
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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Math Mind Reflect Time
The Art of Flying is but newly invented, twill improve by degrees, and in time grow perfect; then we may fly as far as the Moon.
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Art Degree Future Invented Moo
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
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
It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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Everything Passion Undo
There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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Art Three Understanding
There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
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Neighbor Ridicule Ridiculous
I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
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Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
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Future Knows
Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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Grace Neatness Womanhood
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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Astronomy Daughter Science

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