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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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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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As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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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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It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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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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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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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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Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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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.
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I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.
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It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
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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
The Art of Flying is but newly invented, twill improve by degrees, and in time grow perfect; then we may fly as far as the Moon.
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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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To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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