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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.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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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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Les vrais philosophes sont comme les e le phants, qui en marchant ne posent jamais le second pied a’ terre que le premier ne soit bien affermi. True philosophers are like elephants, who when walking never placetheir second footontheground untilthefirst is steady.
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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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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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There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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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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It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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I detest war; it ruins conversation
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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
There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
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It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
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Libertarian Liberty World
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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Art Degree Future Invented Moo
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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Enlighted Future Light Stars
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
Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
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Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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