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Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle quotes: It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.

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

Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle quotes: People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them, and are quite surprised to have done them.

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

Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle quotes: I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.

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

Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle quotes: There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.

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

Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle quotes: To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.

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

Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle quotes: I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.

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

Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle quotes: As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.

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

Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle quotes: A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of geometry.

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 Fontenelle quotes: Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.

Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.

Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle quotes: 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.

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.

Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle quotes: A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.

A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.

Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle 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.

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 quotes: It is high time for me to depart, for at my age I now begin to see things as they really are.

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 Fontenelle quotes: Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.

Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.

Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle quotes: Modesty in women has two special advantages,it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.

Modesty in women has two special advantages,
it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.

Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle quotes: 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?

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 quotes: A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.

A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.

Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle quotes: It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.

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

Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle quotes: We must always skim over pleasures. They are like marshy lands that we must travel nimbly, hardly daring to put down our feet.

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

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

Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle quotes: There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.

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

Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle quotes: I hate war, for it spoils conversation.

I hate war, for it spoils conversation.

Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle quotes: Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.

Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.

Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle quotes: It is the passions that do and undo everything.

It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle quotes: A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see.

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

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

Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle quotes: A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools

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

Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle quotes: If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

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

Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle quotes: I have lived one hundred years; and I die with the consolation of never having thrown the slightest ridicule upon the smallest virtue.

I have lived one hundred years; and I die with the consolation of never having thrown the slightest ridicule upon the smallest virtue.

Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle quotes: An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.

An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.

Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle quotes: Our sun enlightens the planets that belong to him; why may not every fixed star also have planets to which they give light?

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 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.

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.