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A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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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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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
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
Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
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Future Knows
It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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Everything Passion Undo
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
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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Life Science Watches
In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we shall die as usual.
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Dupes Secret Usual
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
I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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Certain Difficulty Last Words
An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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Age Educated Mind
To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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Happiness Heart Stomach
A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see.
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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
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
I detest war; it ruins conversation
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Political Ruin War

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