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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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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
It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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Everything Passion Undo
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
Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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Special Two Veils
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
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
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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Astronomy Daughter Science
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
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
It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
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Libertarian Liberty World
I detest war; it ruins conversation
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Political Ruin War
An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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Age Educated Mind
It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
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Beauty Please Tenderness
A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
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Earth Fool Heaven
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

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