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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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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
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
To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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Happiness Heart Stomach
I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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Certain Difficulty Last Words
It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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Happiness Obstacles
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
Nature intends that, at fixed periods, men should succeed each other by the instrumentality of death. We shall never outwit Nature; we shall die as usual.
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Death Men Succeed Usual
A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of geometry.
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Geometry Hands Math Work
Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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Natural Nature Science
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
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
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
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
Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
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Future Knows
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
I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
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Conversation Hate War
If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
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Funny Hands Truth
An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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Age Educated Mind
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
It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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Everything Passion Undo
There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
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Neighbor Ridicule Ridiculous
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
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
People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them, and are quite surprised to have done them.
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Done Knowing People
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
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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