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Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Quotes: 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.
         

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



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A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see.



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



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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.



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



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





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