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I shall leave the world witho...

I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle 55 quotes

Mathematicians are like lover...

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.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle 55 quotes

It is beauty that begins to p...

It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle 55 quotes

Ah! si l'on o" tait les chim...

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?

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle 55 quotes

We must always skim over plea...

We must always skim over pleasures. They are like marshy lands that we must travel nimbly, hardly daring to put down our feet.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle 55 quotes

In vain we shall penetrate mo...

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.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle 55 quotes

I have lived one hundred year...

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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People almost always do great...

People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them, and are quite surprised to have done them.

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Our sun enlightens the planet...

Our sun enlightens the planets that belong to him; why may not every fixed star also have planets to which they give light?

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle 55 quotes

L'univers?je l'en estime plus...

L'univers?je l'en estime plus depuis que je sais qu'il ressemble a' une montre; il est surprenant que l'ordre de la nature, tout admirable qu'il est, ne roule que sur des choses si simples. I have come to esteem the universe more now that I know it resembles a watch; it is surprising that the order of nature, as admirable as it is, only runs on such simple things.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle 55 quotes

A great obstacle to happiness ...

A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness.

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If I had my hand full of truth...

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle 55 quotes

To despise theory is to have t...

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.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle 55 quotes

Truth comes home to the mind s...

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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A philosopher will not believe...

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 55 quotes

A philospher sees the Earth as...

A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle 55 quotes

Mathematicians are like lovers...

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.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle 55 quotes

There are three things I have ...

There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle 55 quotes

A well-cultivated mind is, so ...

A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been educated during all this time.

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It is a great obstacle to happ...

It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle 55 quotes

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