Fontenelle Quotes
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Fontenelle Quotes & Sayings
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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
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
