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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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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 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
Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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Natural Nature Science
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
An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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Age Educated Mind
People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them, and are quite surprised to have done them.
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Done Knowing People
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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Feet Land Pleasure
Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
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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
Let us be well assured of the Matter of Fact, before we trouble our selves with enquiring into the Cause. It is true, that this Method is too slow for the greatest part of Mankind, who run naturally to the Cause, and pass over the Truth of the Matter of Fact.
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Running Science Self
There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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Art Three Understanding
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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Home Memories Motivational
I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.
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Regret Silence World
It is high time for me to depart, for at my age I now begin to see things as they really are.
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Age Last Time Words
There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
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Neighbor Ridicule Ridiculous
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
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
I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
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Conversation Hate War
A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
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Earth Fool Heaven
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
It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
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Beauty Please Tenderness
Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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Grace Neatness Womanhood
A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.
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Chants Men Voice World
A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see.
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Believe Busy Philosopher
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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