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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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A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.
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Chants Men Voice World
To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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Happiness Heart Stomach
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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Happiness Obstacles
If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
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Funny Hands Truth
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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Elephants Feet Firsts
I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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Certain Difficulty Last Words
Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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Special Two Veils
There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
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Neighbor Ridicule Ridiculous
An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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Age Educated Mind
It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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Everything Passion Undo
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
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
Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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Grace Neatness Womanhood
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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Earth Philosopher Sky
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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Astronomy Daughter Science

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