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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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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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Ambition Astronomy Passion Poor Thing
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
Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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Grace Neatness Womanhood
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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Lover Math Principles
There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
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Neighbor Ridicule Ridiculous
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 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
It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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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
I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.
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Regret Silence World
A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
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Earth Fool Heaven
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
Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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Special Two Veils
I detest war; it ruins conversation
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Political Ruin War
To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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Happiness Heart Stomach
Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
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