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To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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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
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
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
There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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Art Three Understanding
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
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
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
If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
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Funny Hands Truth
It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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Happiness Obstacles
There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
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Neighbor Ridicule Ridiculous
I detest war; it ruins conversation
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Political Ruin War
It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
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Beauty Please Tenderness
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
Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
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Future Knows
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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Astronomy Daughter Science

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