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There are three things I have ...

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

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It is a great obstacle to happ...

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

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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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Let us be well assured of the ...

Let us be well assured of the Matter of Fact, before we trouble our selves with enquiring into the Cause. It is true, that this Method is too slow for the greatest part of Mankind, who run naturally to the Cause, and pass over the Truth of the Matter of Fact.

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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.

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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?

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A work of morality, politics, ...

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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Leibniz never married; he had ...

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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It is high time for me to depa...

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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I feel nothing, apart from a c...

I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.

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It takes time to ruin a world,...

It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.

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If I held all the thoughts of ...

If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

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Nature is never so admired as ...

Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.

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Women react differently: a Fre...

Women react differently: a French woman who sees herself betrayed by her husband will kill his mistress; an Italian will kill her husband; a Spaniard will kill both; and a German will kill herself.

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They will have the World to be...

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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As astronomy is the daughter o...

As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.

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There is nothing one sees ofte...

There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.

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Behold a universe so immense t...

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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Nothing can be more destructiv...

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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The Art of Flying is but newly...

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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