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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.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
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Funny Hands Truth
I detest war; it ruins conversation
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Political Ruin War
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
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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Astronomy Daughter Science
Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!
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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
A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.
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Chants Men Voice World
It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
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Beauty Please Tenderness
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
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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Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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Natural Nature Science
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
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
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
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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