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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.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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I detest war; it ruins conversation
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To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them, and are quite surprised to have done them.
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Les vrais philosophes sont comme les e le phants, qui en marchant ne posent jamais le second pied a’ terre que le premier ne soit bien affermi. True philosophers are like elephants, who when walking never placetheir second footontheground untilthefirst is steady.
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Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
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Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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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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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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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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It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.
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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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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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