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Bernard Le Bovier De Fonte Quotes

Nature is never so admired as when she is understood Picture Quote #1

It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much Picture Quote #1

I detest war; it ruins conversation Picture Quote #1

I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist Picture Quote #1

It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes Picture Quote #1

As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property Picture Quote #1

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To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart Picture Quote #1

There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women Picture Quote #1

It is the passions that do and undo everything Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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! Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it Picture Quote #1

It is high time for me to depart, for at my age I now begin to see things as they really are Picture Quote #1

A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of geometry Picture Quote #1

We must always skim over pleasures. They are like marshy lands that we must travel nimbly, hardly daring to put down our feet Picture Quote #1

If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it Picture Quote #1

Our sun enlightens the planets that belong to him; why may not every fixed star also have planets to which they give light? Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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Nature is never so admired as when she is understood (Bernard Le Bovier De Fonte Quotes) It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much (Bernard Le Bovier De Fonte Quotes) I detest war; it ruins conversation (Bernard Le Bovier De Fonte Quotes) I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist (Bernard Le Bovier De Fonte Quotes) It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes (Bernard Le Bovier De Fonte Quotes) As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property (Bernard Le Bovier De Fonte Quotes) To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart (Bernard Le Bovier De Fonte Quotes) There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women (Bernard Le Bovier De Fonte Quotes) It is the passions that do and undo everything (Bernard Le Bovier De Fonte Quotes) 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 Fonte Quotes) 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! (Bernard Le Bovier De Fonte Quotes) 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 Fonte Quotes) If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it (Bernard Le Bovier De Fonte Quotes) It is high time for me to depart, for at my age I now begin to see things as they really are (Bernard Le Bovier De Fonte Quotes) A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of geometry (Bernard Le Bovier De Fonte Quotes) 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 Fonte Quotes) If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it (Bernard Le Bovier De Fonte Quotes) 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 Fonte Quotes) 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 Fonte Quotes)