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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?

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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Age Educated Mind
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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Knowledge Nothing Science World
The judgment may be compared to a clock or watch, where the most ordinary machine is sufficient to tell the hours; but the most elaborate alone can point out the minutes and seconds, and distinguish the smallest differences of time.
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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
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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It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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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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Hundred Virtue Years
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
It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
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Libertarian Liberty World
Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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Natural Nature Science
I detest war; it ruins conversation
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Political Ruin War
Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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Grace Neatness Womanhood
It is high time for me to depart, for at my age I now begin to see things as they really are.
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Age Last Time Words
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
To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says.
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