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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.

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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I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.
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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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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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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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