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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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It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
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Libertarian Liberty World
I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
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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
It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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Art Three Understanding
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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Knowing Pretension Speak
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
A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
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Earth Fool Heaven
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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Differences Ordinary Watches
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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In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we shall die as usual.
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Dupes Secret Usual
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
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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Astronomy Daughter Science
They will have the World to be in Large, what a Watch is in Small; which is very regular, and depends only upon the just disposing of the several Parts of the Movement.
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Life Science Watches
To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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