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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fontenelle was the most civilized man of his time, and indeed of most times. — Isaiah Berlin

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

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

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

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

Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood. — Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

Nature is never so admired as when she is understood. — Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

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

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

A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise. — Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm. — Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

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

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

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

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

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

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